Security and Privacy Challenges Threaten to Ground Vaccine Passports
Vaccine passports hold one of the keys to getting the travel industry up in the air again, but they are not without privacy and security challenges. Alex Meehan investigates
For as long as there has been technology, there have been competing standards, and it seems that when it comes to the issue of vaccine passports, not much has changed.
Last month, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps confirmed that the UK would be using the NHS phone app as its COVID-19 vaccine passport. “It will be the NHS app that is used for people when they book appointments with the NHS and so on, to be able to show you’ve had a vaccine or that you’ve had testing. I’m working internationally with partners across the world to make sure that system can be internationally recognized,” he told Sky News.