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Report: Scottish Government’s Vax Passport Sending People’s Private Data To Amazon, Microsoft
Summit News ^ | 23 November, 2021 | Steve Watson

Posted on 11/23/2021 7:20:13 AM PST by george76

Data has been shared with third parties without people having the option to opt out or without even being made aware that this is happening”..

As if the liberty erasing connotations of vaccine passports were not enough on their own, it has been revealed that the Scottish government has allowed data from the scheme to be shared with private companies including Amazon.

The Daily Record reports, “We have learned the NHS mobile phone app which presents the personal medical information in the form of a QR Code shares data with companies including Amazon, Microsoft, ServiceNow, Royal Mail and an AI facial recognition firm.”

Users of the vaccine passport app were not informed their data would be shared, according to the report.

Commenting on the findings, Sam Grant of privacy advocate group Liberty warned “Vaccine passports create a two-tier society and already many people in Scotland have been coerced into getting a vaccine passport in order to attend events and access certain parts of society.”

Grant added, “It’s extremely concerning that, in doing so, data has been shared with third parties without people having the option to opt out or without even being made aware that this is happening. This only furthers the wide concerns people already have around vaccine passports.”

The leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrat party, Alex Cole-Hamilton, also stated that his party “have repeatedly warned the Government that data protection is virtually non-existent – a simple screenshot was enough to bypass whatever ‘security measures’ the system had in place.”

“The launch was a shambles and the IT system struggled to cope,” Cole-Hamilton explained, adding “Everyone has the right to medical privacy; nobody should ever have to provide part of their medical history to a bouncer or a series of private companies. That is just simply absurd.”

Silkie Carlo, the head of another Privacy advocate group, Big Brother Watch, explained Monday why the vaccine passports are a total failure in Scotland:

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The British government has consistently lied about the introduction of vaccine passports:

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Government data, and peer reviewed studies, show that the vaccinated are just as likely to spread the virus as the unvaxxed.

That being the case, the case for vaccine passports has been completely demolished:


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
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1 posted on 11/23/2021 7:20:13 AM PST by george76
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2 posted on 11/23/2021 7:23:01 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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This is my shocked face ... :-/

Any data collected and stored on cell phone apps will not remain private for long. China probably already has it.
3 posted on 11/23/2021 7:25:16 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: george76

There are distinct advantages to having neither a vax passport or a social media account.


4 posted on 11/23/2021 7:27:15 AM PST by G Larry (The "Racism" charge is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
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To: george76

It’s called Pfascism, and it’s when korporations align with government to deprive people of their rights.


5 posted on 11/23/2021 7:28:33 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: G Larry

What ever happened to the HIPPA law?


6 posted on 11/23/2021 7:29:18 AM PST by CMailBag
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“What ever happened to the HIPPA law?”

Did you catch the title? Scotland.


7 posted on 11/23/2021 7:37:30 AM PST by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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To: george76

As soon as they tried to link your phone to your vax, I saw this coming.
They are going to create a global database.
Once you “opt in”, you are stuck.


8 posted on 11/23/2021 8:03:43 AM PST by Zathras
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To: T.B. Yoits

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945) was a founding figure in the rise of 20th Century fascism.


9 posted on 11/23/2021 8:09:49 AM PST by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”
— Benito Mussolini


10 posted on 11/23/2021 8:27:06 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: dljordan

Plus it is HIPAA


11 posted on 11/23/2021 8:31:54 AM PST by HonorInPa
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