Vaccine Passports Are Here to Stay. Why Worry? – By Judith Levine (The Intercept) / January 1, 2022
The key to reanimating public life may also be the linchpin of a global surveillance network.
“YEAH I USE the pass. What should I be afraid of?” That’s Jack, a friend who works in state and city politics, responding to a poll I posted on Facebook about digital Covid-19 vaccination passports. “Are you using one?” it asked. “Why’d you download it instead of using the paper card? Do you have any fears about it?”
The responses were untroubled. Using it: mostly yes. “Now that theater is back, [New York] Excelsior passes are handy, since proof of vax is mandatory,” wrote a critic. A retired teacher noted that the app is more durable; paper “rumples” and gets lost.
And fears? Mostly no. I sent Jack a few off the top of my head: “Concerns about privacy, misuse of digitized biodata, lack of transparency, more info in hands of tech companies and the state in some unknown collaboration.”
“The state already had vax data,” he replied. “I never considered the rest. Which answers your question about whether people were worried, in my case.”
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