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Microsoft, Big Tech Coalition Developing Rockefeller Funded COVID Passports: ‘The most significant vaccination effort in history’
Summit News ^ | 01/15/2021 | Steve Watson

Posted on 01/15/2021 10:45:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind

A coalition of big tech companies, including Microsoft is developing a COVID passport, with the expectation that a digital document linked to vaccination status will be required to travel and get access to basic services.

The group is calling itself the Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI), and includes Microsoft, Salesforce and Oracle.

The US health provider Mayo Clinic is also involved in the project, which is being described as “the most significant vaccination effort in the history of the United States.”

The idea is now a familiar one. Anyone who has been vaccinated will receive a QR code that can be stored on their mobile phone in the wallet app. Those without phones will have access to a printed version.

We have previously reported on the development of this so called ‘CommonPass’, which also has backing from the World Economic Forum, and now more details have emerged.

Screenshot: ‘CommonPass’ outline – click to enlarge

“The goal of the Vaccination Credential Initiative is to empower individuals with digital access to their vaccination records,” said Paul Meyer, CEO of non-profit The Commons Project, also involved in the project.

Meyer said that the document will allow people “to safely return to travel, work, school, and life, while protecting their data privacy.”

Tech giants want to help you prove you’ve been vaccinated for COVID-19, via @FastCompany https://t.co/tNNDzC3cux #vaccinecredential #covidvaccine pic.twitter.com/q0GIsjuc06 — The Commons Project (@commons_prjct) January 14, 2021

Meyer said the coalition is working with several governments, and expects standards to be adopted that will see mandatory negative tests or proof of vaccination, in order to re-engage in society.

“Individuals are going to need to have to produce vaccination records for a lot of aspects of getting back to life as normal,” he added. “We live in a globally connected world. We used to anyway — and we hope to again.”

The Financial Times reports that The Commons Project has received funding for the project from the Rockefeller Foundation, and that it is being implemented by all three major airline alliances.

We’re excited to announce that we’ve partnered with @MITREcorp and a broad coalition of industry leaders across healthcare and technology to accelerate digital access to COVID-19 vaccination records. Read more: https://t.co/9tJR8Cbymc #vaccinecredential pic.twitter.com/e9leRz2Bza — The Commons Project (@commons_prjct) January 14, 2021

The Rockefeller Foundation has previously touted its plans for a ‘Covid-19 data and commons digital platform’ as well as a desire to “launch a Covid Community Healthcare Corps for testing and contact tracing.”

“Coordination of such a massive program should be treated as a wartime effort,” the foundation states on its website, adding that there should be “a public/private bipartisan Pandemic Testing Board established to assist and serve as a bridge between local, state, and federal officials with the logistical, investment and political challenges this operation will inevitably face.”

Screenshot: Rockefeller Foundation ‘Covid action plan’ website

Screenshot: Rockefeller Foundation ‘Covid action plan’ website

Microsoft, Oracle and Salesforce join a push for digital vaccination credentials. Read more via @nytimes on #vaccinecredential https://t.co/AOXrVtRJEW — The Commons Project (@commons_prjct) January 14, 2021

The group also wants to see a global standardisation of the so called vaccine passports, noting that “The current vaccination record system does not readily support convenient access, control and sharing of verifiable vaccination records.”

The coalition of big tech firms is looking to “customize all aspects of the vaccination management lifecycle and integrate closely with other coalition members’ offerings, which will help us all get back to public life,” said Bill Patterson, an executive vice president at Salesforce.

“With a single platform to help deliver safe and continuous operations and deepen trust with customers and employees, this coalition will be crucial to support public health and wellbeing,” Patterson claimed.

Mike Sicilia, executive vice president of Oracle’s Global Business Units added that “This process needs to be as easy online banking. We are committed to working collectively with the technology and medical communities, as well as global governments.”

Ken Mayer, founder and CEO of Safe Health also stated that the VCI “will enable application developers to create privacy-preserving health status verification solutions that can be seamlessly integrated into existing ticketing workflows.”

Put more simply, it will “help get concerts and sporting events going again,” Mayer said.

The context seems clear. Those without the COVID passport will not be allowed to travel or engage in social events.

Hundreds of Tech companies are scrambling over themselves to develop COVID passport systems.

As we reported last month, the IATA, the world’s largest air transport lobby group, expects its COVID travel pass app to be fully rolled out in the first months of 2021.

A further ‘COVID passport’ app called the AOKpass from travel security firm International SOS is currently undergoing trials between Abu Dhabi and Pakistan.

We have exhaustively documented the privacy and rights concerns associated with the move toward adoption, and more importantly the global standardisation of so called COVID passports.

UK based human rights group Privacy International has warned that if “immunity” passports are issued by some governments, it could signal a creep toward “digital identity schemes” and other mandatory ID schemes.

“Once you have multiple uses (e.g. access to services) in multiple domains (i.e. public sector, private sector), in multiple countries (i.e. travel), then we are approaching a global identity document needed to live your life,” the group warned.

Sweden based human rights group The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) warned recently that 61 per cent of countries have used COVID restrictions “that were concerning from a democracy and human rights perspective.”

Anna Beduschi, an academic from Exeter University, commented on the potential move toward vaccine passports by EU, noting that it “poses essential questions for the protection of data privacy and human rights.”

Beduschi added that the vaccine passports may “create a new distinction between individuals based on their health status, which can then be used to determine the degree of freedoms and rights they may enjoy.”

The EU’s own data protection chief Wojciech Wiewiórowski recently labeled the idea of an immunity passport “extreme” and has repeatedly said it is alarming, and ‘disgusting’.

A report compiled last year by AI research body the Ada Lovelace Institute said so called ‘immunity’ passports “pose extremely high risks in terms of social cohesion, discrimination, exclusion and vulnerability.”

Sam Grant, campaign manager at the civili liberties advocacy group Liberty has warned that “any form of immunity passport risks creating a two-tier system in which some of us have access to freedoms and support while others are shut out.”

“These systems could result in people who don’t have immunity potentially being blocked from essential public services, work or housing – with the most marginalised among us hardest hit,” Grant further warned.

“This has wider implications too because any form of immunity passport could pave the way for a full ID system – an idea which has repeatedly been rejected as incompatible with building a rights-respecting society,” Grant further urged.

Gloria Guevara, CEO of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), has also slammed the passports as “discriminatory”, saying “We should never require the vaccination to get a job or to travel.”

Speaking at a Reuters event, the head of the WTTC also condemned airline Qantas for their previous assertion that unvaccinated people would not be allowed on their aircraft.

“It will take a significant amount of time to vaccinate the global population, particularly those in less advanced countries, or in different age groups, therefore we should not discriminate against those who wish to travel but have not been vaccinated,” Guevara noted.

Nevertheless, the spectre of so called ‘immunity passports’ is looming globally.

As noted above, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has penned a letter to EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, demanding that the Commission should ‘standardise’ a vaccine passport across all member countries, and that it should be required for people to travel throughout the area, further outlining that “Persons who have been vaccinated should be free to travel.”

The request is set to be debated in the coming days.

Vaccine passports have previously been touted by the EU, with officials suggesting back in April that visa applicants would also be required to be vaccinated.

EU countries including Spain, Estonia, Iceland, and Belgium have all indicated that they are open to some form of vaccine passports, as well as sharing the data across borders.

Denmark recently announced that it is rolling out a ‘Covid passport’, to allow those who have taken the vaccine to engage in society without any restrictions.

Poland has also announced plans to introduce vaccine passports, which will allow those who have taken the COVID shot greater freedoms than those who have not.

Having left the EU, Britain would not be part of any standardised European scheme, however it has now confirmed that it is rolling out vaccine passports, despite previous denials that it would do so.

Recently, the government in Ontario, Canada admitted that it is exploring ‘immunity passports’ in conjunction with restrictions on travel and access to social venues for the unvaccinated.

Last month, Israel announced that citizens who get the COVID-19 vaccine will be given ‘green passports’ that will enable them to attend venues and eat at restaurants.

A litany of other government and travel industry figures in both the US, Britain and beyond have suggested that ‘COVID passports’ are coming in order for ‘life to get back to normal’.

In addition, hotels have also indicated they will do the same.

Insurers have also indicated that they will fall in line with any standardisation of vaccination passports, and may demand to see proof of vaccination before covering those wishing to go on holiday.

The international Travel and Health Insurance Journal reported that “If the EU obliges travellers to vaccinate, travel insurance providers may refuse to cover those who decline to have the vaccination.”

EU news website Schengenvisainfo also reported on the likely move by insurers, pointing out that anti-vaxxers will likely be specifically targeted by the mandates.

“Even if anti-vax travellers find a loophole in the requirement and manage to enter any of the Member States, travel insurance providers may refuse to cover them,” the report states.

It continues, “With the high volume of fake news and conspiracy theories that have been going on for months now on the pandemic and vaccination, the real challenge for the EU will not be to purchase the necessary vaccine doses, but rather to convince people to be vaccinated.”

The report adds that “Conspiracy theorists, in Europe and further in the world, have targeted Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who is known as a supporter of vaccination, claiming he is responsible for the Coronavirus pandemic.”

While surveys have indicated that around half the people in the world are not willing to take the vaccine at this stage. However, a recent poll has indicated that 74% of Americans say they are willing to get a COVID vaccination passport, should they be introduced in the U.S.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigtech; covidpassports; linux; microsoft; vaccination
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To: SeekAndFind

I try to come up with the wildest and craziest conspiracy theories—and then the plutocrats insist on turning them into conspiracy fact!


21 posted on 01/15/2021 11:42:31 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it.)
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To: beancounter13

They will vaccinate you over and over—just because they love torturing the unwashed masses.

“The purpose of power is power.”

George Orwell

1984


22 posted on 01/15/2021 11:43:36 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it.)
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To: Terry L Smith

Our leaders say the Virus will ALWAYS be with us. Which means, yearly vaccinations


23 posted on 01/15/2021 11:56:47 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: SeekAndFind

All we need to know about this Planed-demic can be seen in Wuhan China today. plenty of videos on youtube, bitchute and Rumble.


24 posted on 01/15/2021 11:56:53 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: SeekAndFind

“May your chains sit lightly upon you . . .”


25 posted on 01/15/2021 11:59:03 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: SeekAndFind
I want a big yellow star for my lapel, too.

And the date of my first vaccination tattooed on my .....

26 posted on 01/15/2021 12:01:17 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: SeekAndFind

This fore warms of checkpoints at all borders, national, state, county, municipal, precinct . . .


27 posted on 01/15/2021 12:02:40 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: beancounter13

Got this from the Paris Consulate this morning, also included a reminder that FRANCE itself is under curfew from 6PM to 6AM starting tomorrow.

“...Beginning Tuesday, January 26, U.S. citizens and all other travelers flying into the United States will need to present either a negative COVID-19 viral or antibody test performed within three days prior to boarding or evidence of having contracted and recovered from COVID-19 within 90 days before boarding.

· United States citizens ARE subject to this requirement.

· COVID-19 vaccination does not satisfy this requirement. Vaccinated travelers must still present negative test results.

· Additional information is available from the CDC website andthe U.S. Embassy COVID-19 website. Please note, this new requirement does not change Presidential Proclamation 9993 prohibiting most travel by non-U.S. citizens from the Schengen Zone to the United States, nor the similar French ban on non-French travelers from the United States to France. Both bans remain in effect. More information can be found on our website and the website of the French Embassy in Washington.”

SO, what is the use of a vaccine if you still have to take a test? And, the three day limit is absurd because in at least two cases, I didn’t get my results back in time.


28 posted on 01/15/2021 12:26:58 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: SeekAndFind

No, no, and no.


29 posted on 01/15/2021 12:30:23 PM PST by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!)
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To: SeekAndFind
One suggestion for Summit News: use a little common sense when publicizing polls.

Just reading this url https://summit.news/2021/01/14/poll-three-quarters-of-americans-want-vaccine-passports/ can have an impact on some individual's belief system and provide a beach head of acceptance for the encroaching tyranny.

520 responses would not realistically represent 74% of America.

For an UNknown magazine though it could reflect whatever the sponsor wants it to reflect. That rarely includes truth.

30 posted on 01/15/2021 12:59:11 PM PST by MurrietaMadman (Keep in mind, the Gates of hell shall not prevail against you.)
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To: blueplum

They tied the glu vax to medicate disbursement rates.. so yes. Forced jealthcate.


31 posted on 01/15/2021 2:56:51 PM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: OpusatFR

Thank you. This is good to know.

Someone should put out an alert to all the travel industry trade groups that I will not be spending any money on travel until this silliness subsides.

I have had the virus, and I recovered quite nicely, thank you very much.


32 posted on 01/15/2021 3:06:29 PM PST by beancounter13
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To: SeekAndFind

Covid is used to justify draconian socialism everywhere. It will nevey be allowed to go away, as long as itis still useful

This is an effort to mandate a Global Electronic ID. Nothing less. It must be fought to its death!!!

Think of the ramifications... complete tracking of everything about you. And social scores, of course. Complete world control of the populace requires a univeral Electronic ID. Covid is the excuse.


33 posted on 01/15/2021 4:11:18 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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