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My Health Record opt out date announced

Every Australian will be offered a My Health Record unless they choose not to have one during the three month opt out period that will run from 16 July to 15 October 2018. Announcing the dates, the government claims that more than five million Australians already have a My Health Record, which provides a summary of their key health information.

Polish Credit Office Banks on the Blockchain for records

The Polish Credit Office (Biuro Informacji Kredytowej - BIK), the largest credit bureau in Central and Eastern Europe, has committed to implementing Billon blockchain for storage and secure access to sensitive customer information including millions of documents.

The latest health data breach is one reason why I’ll be opting out of MyHealthRecord

Family Planning NSW has taken its website offline for a “security update” after learning that hackers breached its booking system two weeks ago. The organisation notified its clients via email, and journalist Lauren Ingram, who was personally affected by the data breach, shared the notification on Twitter.

A new way to hide information in plain text

Computer scientists at the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science have invented FontCode, a new way to embed hidden information in ordinary text by imperceptibly changing, or perturbing, the shapes of fonts in text. While having obvious advantages for spies, FontCode has perhaps more practical application for companies wanting to prevent document tampering or protect copyrights, and for retailers and artists wanting to embed QR codes and other metadata without altering the look or layout of a document.

A Strategy for Search – the key to an effective Digital Workplace

An oft-quoted statistic has information workers spending 1.8 hours each day or 9.3 hours per week searching for information. If you are in a team of five, this equates to one of you making about as much progress as if they spent the day at the football. 

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