What surprises me is that the person's address is stored there. It seems to me absolutely unnecessary, and I'm not even sure where they get it from as the address on record by Social Security is not supposed to be disclosed even to health professionals.

I think this is only the address one gives freely to the vaccination/test center and which is not checked by anyone.

I still can't think of any case where it would be useful in conjunction with your vaccination status.

According to the article the address is not included in the 2D-DOC QR code.

I agree with you that it's not useful information for the purpose of a "health pass" used to gain access to venues and events. On the other hand, as a matter of Covid response strategy and enforcement of any restrictions (so for the authorities at large) it is very useful to know where a person that has tested positive lives.

That's right! I had read it wrong somehow. I don't find the information that is actually included to be too sensitive then.

It might have been useful in this case but the French government itself is not allowed to have a general-purpose database of citizen's addresses. Even the address that the social security has for contact purposes cannot be legally used for this (and is probably unreliable anyway as people forget to update their address when moving) and I don't think many people would have been comfortable with communicating their addresses for the purposes of Covid tracking.

Of course they can collect addresses for this if they want. It's not a general-purpose database, either.

One problem we're having in this pandemic is the squeamish and "can't do" attitude on about everything.