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Friday, February 12, 2021

A new platform for all kinds of biological information?

 

A new platform for all kinds of biological information? Digital vaccine passport plans prompt Orwellian concerns

Those who are planning to travel abroad in 2021 might need to pack more than just their paper passport. As many countries peg freedom to travel to immunity proof or a negative COVID-19 test, the concept of a so-called vaccine passport of some kind is being floated as an international solution to a public health problem.

Earlier in February, Denmark shared its plans to develop its own digital vaccine passport that would identify those who have received the COVID-19 vaccine. “In three, four months, a digital corona passport will be ready for use in, for example, business travel,said Denmark’s Finance Minister Morten Bødskov.

Denmark’s vaccine passport will live on one’s phone, and will essentially serve as documentation that the holder has received a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. Bødskov said that Denmark will “be among the first in the world to have it.” The idea is that this digital document will ease travel restrictions for international travelers by allowing them to bypass a mandated quarantine, or perhaps avoid having to take a COVID-19 test prior to departure and upon arrival.

But protesters already marched against this ‘vaccine passport’ in Copenhagen, Denmark:

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