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Silicon Valley Foundation, WEF Announce Global Initiative for Vaccine Passports

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What happens when this unelected body "revokes" your passport? You just don't get to go anywhere anymore? Will this be used to remove political enemies from society?

What if there is bugs in the system? SV is terrible at customer support. Think about all the times random people got their google account shut off by mistake. Imagine this ID/passport system....

Is anyone else thinking how useless/overcomplicated these big tech Covid projects have been?

My biggest issue is that (at least in Texas) the websites and sign up process for getting a vaccine has been a complete and total cluster. Listen to stories of octagenarians trying to sign up on 50 different websites, half of them erroring out or requiring a long sign up process only to find out that there are no more vaccination slots.

If there is one thing tech companies could have assisted with it was the vaccine registration and distribution process (how many queueing SaaS products exist anyway?), but I have seen them do nothing in that regard. Instead we got useless unnecessarily complicated projects like the cell phone contact tracing apps, and now this.

Like the slogan says, "If you're not part of the solution, there is money to be made in prolonging the problem."

You are assuming that this wasn’t the entire point of the vaccine campaign in the first place.

This is the one place where Tech Companies have been given no opportunity to help. A thousand tech companies would have loved to build such a system but ass-backward government procurement processes are the problem here.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/30/1017086/cdc-44-m...

Massive incompetence, denigration of those with significant concerns, ignoring centuries of natural immunological experience and over-estimating the risk to large proportions of the population...

Should be a hit!

> Silicon Valley’s most influential companies, alongside healthcare companies, US intelligence contractors and the Commons Project Foundation, recently launched the Vaccination Credential Initiative. The initiative’s ambitions reach far beyond vaccines and will have major implications for civil liberties.

I oppose this if true. However, IIRC, the author of this piece (Whitney Webb) is pretty fringy, and I recognize some of the sources she uses (e.g. MintPress News) as unreliable.

RE: Fringey

It wasn't long ago that if you mentioned ID2020, vaccine passports or never ending lockdowns you would be derided as a crank.

Today people with concerns about vaccine passports are called conspiracists.

I observed the same with the Iraqi WMD debacle.

Maybe not everyone has time for deep dives and research, but IMHO that's much better than insinuation.

I just don’t get the need for this. Who is everyone planning on showing their vaccine records to other than their doctor?

This has nothing to do with your vaccines; this is just the first step of turning you into cattle.

Pubs, restaurants, airlines, insurers, employers, police checkpoints, etc

Why would I share HIPPA data with any of those groups, other than potentially a required doctors exam for life insurance?

To get into whatever event you're trying to get into.

From my reading of the article and related topics the intention is to use it for much more than proof of vaccination. CBDC (central bank digital currencies) seem like a perfect fit. As the article mentions, they are referred to as "wallets". The WEF has a project called ID2020.

https://id2020.org/digital-identity

"The ability to prove who you are is a fundamental and universal human right."

War is peace, freedom is slavery.

Let's wait for the inevitable exploits and data leaks.

It’s a thin line. I’ve been running a service a few years back that required KYC. Lots of people from African countries could not sign up for a lack of ID. In that respect it is a human right. But I agree with your double speak sentiment as well. It’s almost impossible not to be abused.

Well, this campaign was inevitable. It’s the global social credit system, just like Adam Curry said. Yikes!

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