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The positives and perils of My Health Record

Posted on July 27, 2018 | in Articles

Last week, Singapore's ministry of health admitted information from 1.5 million citizens had been copied in "a deliberate, targeted, and well-planned cyber attack" by hackers who were specifically going after the personal data of the country's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong. It took authorities a week to detect the breach, which, to be fair, is relatively fast given the average organisation takes more than six months.

Urgent reform of digital rights frameworks required, warn online human rights experts

Posted on July 23, 2018 | in Media releases

Digital Rights Watch has warned of an increasingly hostile digital rights environment in which Australian citizens risk having their human rights eroded, unless a radical rethink of government policy is implemented.

Human rights groups and experts call on the Australian government to reject plans to undermine encryption

Posted on July 17, 2018 | in Media releases

Today, a global coalition led by civil society and technology experts sent a letter asking the government of Australia to abandon plans to introduce legislation that would undermine strong encryption. The letter calls on government officials to become proponents of digital security and work collaboratively to help law enforcement adapt to the digital era.

How to opt-out of the federal medical database

Posted on July 16, 2018 | in News , Take Action

By the end of 2018, a ‘My Health Record’ will be created for every Australian unless they choose not to have one. The three month opt-out period runs from 16 July (today) through to 15 October 2018.

Amidst privacy concerns, Australians urged to opt-out of national health record

Posted on July 15, 2018 | in Media releases

Civil rights group Digital Rights Watch have urged Australian citizens to be aware of deeply concerning privacy issues in the Government’s planned digital health record system, as the opt-out period begins today.

Submission to copyright modernisation consultation

Posted on July 4, 2018 | in Submissions

The Department of Communication and the Arts undertook a consultation into copyright modernisation, and Digital Rights Watch provided a submission to this process.