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Re:England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary ... by Nextgrid on Sunday September 12, 2021 @09:59AM (#28501192)
Providing ID to enter a bar or nightclub (where some have these machines which no doubt capture and store that data) is commonplace even though the venue has no business knowing who the person is.
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Re:England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary ... by spookthesunset on Sunday September 12, 2021 @01:48PM (#28503210)
I mean the reason you do this is to prove you are 21. Requiring anybody who enters any random business on the street to show a vaccine card is not even close to an apt comparison.
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Re:England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary ... by Nextgrid on Sunday September 12, 2021 @02:54PM (#28503737)
The vaccine card is to prove you are vaccinated. In both cases they're merely after a boolean (is_over_18? vs is_vaccinated?).

But we're clearly accepting the idea of giving up way more information in the former case even though all that's needed is the boolean, so why the fuss around the vaccines when they're ultimately also after a boolean?

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