A fast-growing number of private venues and some local officials in the U.S. are now requiring proof of vaccination in public settings to reduce the spread of the delta variant and assuage wary customers. What do these requirements look like?
and private companies like Walmart and the airport security app Clear. The digital vaccine passes issued by states are verified through a state or local immunization registry.
“Those systems are a giant leap towards tracking people’s location,” Schwartz said. “There’s a very real risk of mission creep once there are scanners at doors and people are showing their scannable token to pass through.” So long as a venue is using a VCI-compliant scanner, there shouldn’t be anything to worry about, said Dr. Brian Anderson, chief digital health physician at MITRE and co-lead of the Vaccination Credential Initiative, which counts Apple, Microsoft and the Mayo Clinic among its members. “That app won’t store an individual’s data beyond the time that the QR code is scanned,” he said.
It’s a crowded market that includes apps made by Clear and Walmart, many of which have now signed onto the VCI’s privacy standards and code of conduct.
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