The Australian Privacy Foundation has major problems with the federal government’s My Health Record system, saying it’s a “privacy disaster waiting to happen,” Delimiter reports. The APF says the biggest problem with My Health Record is the amount of access its Medicare Call Centre’s employees have to the system’s data. While the government said it would provide a “clear and robust framework” for the call center in 2011, the APF said not enough has been done in the past five years. “This total failure to deliver on its promise and put in place much needed protections exposes patients to curious call centre operators whose prying and spying are unlikely to be detected,” said Dr. Bernard Robertson-Dunn, chair of the health committee at the APF.
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