Posted on 08/20/2021 10:06:51 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Smartphone developers are gearing up for a world where users can store their Covid vaccination proof in their phones’ digital wallets, making it easy to simply tap their phones when they enter new buildings.
The development, which concerns some privacy advocates, comes as the delta variant of the coronavirus surges through the U.S. and some cities plan to require people to prove they’ve been vaccinated to enter places like gyms, restaurants and bars.
Google, Apple and Samsung have all recently announced plans to offer a feature that readily calls up a QR code that can be scanned to quickly verify a user’s vaccination status.
Samsung, which manufactures Galaxy smartphones, announced Wednesday that it is partnering with the Commons Project, developers of one of a number of vaccine passport smartphone apps.
Like New York state’s Excelsior Pass, the CommonHealth app asks users to undergo a one-time process by sharing their names and their dates of birth and the dates and locations of their vaccinations. The app connects with vaccination providers to verify the information, and if it’s correct, it creates scannable QR codes embedded with that information.
“Rather than having to pull up CommonHealth — which is a personal health records app, now you can store this in a much more convenient place,” said JP Pollak, the app’s chief architect.
“You can imagine that at some point in the future, your vaccine record happens to be something you need with that great of frequency,” Pollak said.
In June, Google announced that it had developed similar technology for all updated Android phones and that it was seeking vaccination providers. And Apple has said the iPhone’s next operating system, iOS 15, will offer a similar feature when it is released in the fall.
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I called this last week! ha - I should be king of the sandbox.
Is there a “none of your #$(^%!) business” option?
no thanks. i’ll just keep my flip phone.
Paging George Orwell.
Switching back to rotary phone...
I’ll just keep my landline and tracphone which I’ve misplaced for over 6 months.
I recently went back to a flip phone. So nice, was burning my life away with my face buried in the damn phone. Actually had a bit of anxiety at first.
By the time the ‘new and improved’ vaccine comes out after the first of the year (trust me, it will) do I have to get all four?
Or can I just wait for the new vaccine to roll of the assembly line?
I liked the tattoo idea, but I’ll go with it. What I really need is a little robot grafted to my forehead that tells me where I get to go and what I get to do. And, of course, what I get to think. It’s for the greater good.
I will not comply.
If they use force, so will I.
Yeah it’s called a Motorola flip phone.
I’m going walkie talkie…
How about an App that you scan the bar code on the stores front door that tells you if that store is jab only or both. Then we can decide if we unclean want to go in.
Darn these conspiracy theories that keep coming true. I distinctly remember liberals telling me this will never happen, and that just wants the vaccine was available everything will be back to normal.
Just download the “NUNYA” app.
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