Re:Australia is becoming a surveillance state
by GekkePrutser on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @05:50AM
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> Or make daily life dependent on showing your NHS number? Easy to fake, so we'd need NHS photo id-cards to get a coffee, ... sounds a bit police-statey to me ... etc
Exactly, yet this is exactly what Germany, France and Italy are doing right now.
You need the QR code which contains your name / DOB + Photo ID
Re:Australia is becoming a surveillance state
by avh02 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @09:34AM
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Officially, they don't need your PII to validate your certificate: "The personal data of the certificate holder does not pass through the gateway, as this is not necessary to verify the digital signature" [1]
That said, I've not actually looked in to how these work... In Berlin at least, it's rare to get an ID check at a restaurant, usually someone just glances at your phone.
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-re...
edit: further: "The CovPassCheck app processes the QR code only in the working memory of the smartphone and does not store any data." [2]
[2] https://digitaler-impfnachweis-app.apps.public.bfarm.de/en/c...
They are, in the UK attached to you NHS number for example. But the question is, how you you force the non-compliant to comply? Form the set-difference of the NHS and national DBs, hunt down and inject the non-compliant? Sounds a bit police-statey to me. Or make daily life dependent on showing your NHS number? Easy to fake, so we'd need NHS photo id-cards to get a coffee, ... sounds a bit police-statey to me ... etc