Well, I opted out yesterday, printed a receipt, and had no trouble at all. Tip: don’t try doing in business hours as the system will be choc-a-block. Because of lots of people opting out, perhaps. And, I can’t see how you would already be ‘in’ if you hadn’t agreed to be ‘in’.

I think that there is every chance that the whole nasty, intrusive idea will be dropped, given the objections. In the meantime, opt out. We need to show Big Brother that we have had enough

Opting out? Almost as easy as retrieving your public persona from facebook!

There are a few folks who want their privacy to be absolute and only possible if you are a hermit surviving like Robinson Crusoe on an uninhabited Island or newly discovered planet?
Alan B.

Alan B Please correct your false information, you part about "uninhabited Island" don't forget google earth satellites.

Google is worse than Facebook for spying.

Google here.

We have satellite photos of you,
lighting a fire (bad for global warming)
Swimming near dolphins or Whales (it better not be in Australian waters, you will be locked up)
That egg you cooked yesterday was from an endangered turtle.
We have more photos but will not tell you, but be assured the NSA, CIA, have copies.

Well I have created my record myself some years ago, but only because I am not and never will use it in its originally-intended way, so no medical information will ever find its way there (which would definitely be unsafe).

In about 1972 I was offered a job, overseas, very good money 3 Mths paid holidays a year, I was also shown my personal File. It had everything in it from the day I was born, friends at school, what I did after school. My life before, during & after the Army. Your Med Records are nothing. Your entire life is already on record.

Exactly Jayb, exactly!
Alan B.

Alan B:Exactly Jayb, exactly!

It's really no big deal. It's never affected my life in anyway. Nothing they have on anyone can be used against that person in any way by anyone.

Jayb - Quote "Nothing they have on anyone can be used against that person in any way by anyone."

It is confusing "they have" is who?

With regard to information you are wrong the more information someone has about another person the easier it is to take there identity.

If you have enough you can open bank accounts, take out loans, get a passport absolutely anything you want with enough personal data.

PS: It is confusing "they have" is who?

I was shown my ASIO File. They (ASIO, I think) were recruiting. It was explained to me that nothing in those Files, good or bad, could be used in any Court of Law at any time.

Other than that I don't have any idea. I was offered a specific Job, that's all. I had just lost my Daughter in the Children's Court. She was under three years old. I had looked after her on my own for 13 months. I refused. That was the end of it.

Philip S, your not wrong.
Some years ago after selling up my business overseas and returning home I heard a story which was being told in a few of my circles.
It was being told by a well known con-man and low-life.
Upon hearing it the first time I thought little of it.
I don't think I was privy to the full conversation.
As time went on I heard a reference to this same person and that he had done what turned out to be ME!
Yes he was going around telling people he had a limousine manufacturing business in Malaysia, at around the time I lived and had my business there.
And to top it all off, in Shah Alam, where my business was located and that he knew and met the then PM DR Mahathir, and the coincidences just kept on coming.
Well I don't recall any other Aussie with a limo building business anywhere in Asia let alone in the same suburb.
Now me being naive and unable to think like a con-man or the like, did not catch on at first until I realised who it was behind this fable.
The scum bag had actually dared to adopt my identity or status so as to con his way into fleecing money off unsuspecting people.
I remember thinking, I hope he hasn't gone so far as to use my name as well.
But it just goes to show if a scum bag can use your info to his benefit what can others do with your info?
And do not believe the BS that your info is secure.
The govt are the worst ones to stop breaches of security.
There are too many incidents on record and not enough security to convince me that our info is safe.
Anyway it doesn't matter, they already have files on us and everything we've ever done anyway.
I'm just a little confused as to why WE suddenly have to agree to it.