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Re:Serious privacy/security concerns raised about Portpass v... by redis_mlc on Monday September 27, 2021 @04:37AM (#28668421)
In China, the vaccine testing data is already integrated into their social credit score system, so you can't get on public transit, etc. without completing the vaccine milestones.

In the US, the govt. has an internal system called XKeyScore that tracks your email, web and credit history.

In Australia, they have a "private" vaccine tracking app, but from Day One the police admitted having access to the database. (The police called reporters stupid for believing the app data was ever private.)

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Re:Serious privacy/security concerns raised about Portpass v... by narrator on Monday September 27, 2021 @01:14PM (#28673398)
This is why you don't accept the vaccine passport. It will be the camel's nose under the tent that will be used to gameify every aspect of our lives.

In the social credit score future, everyone gets UBI, but only people who jump through every little tiny hoop the government can think up can actually do anything with that money.

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