Just as we thought some of the gas was escaping from the My Health Record opt out Hindenburg, yet another drama exploded at the start of the week as the media and the privacy lobby seized on the wording of section 70 of the My Health Record Act, a couple of paragraphs of legalese that is either quite straight forward or a stain on humanity depending on your point of view.

Various interpretations of exactly what s70 means abounded, but it in effect lays out the circumstances under which the My Health Record system operator, namely the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA), would be authorised to release health information to law enforcement officials, including the police and the immigration department.