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Re: [saag] Interest COVID-19 'passport' standardization?

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 30 July 2021 20:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [saag] Interest COVID-19 'passport' standardization?
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On 2021-07-30, at 22:40, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org> wrote:
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> While I support your sentiments (in fact, I warned against the persistence and abuse of COVID-19 related infrastructure as soon as the pandemic hit [1]) and do note that the COVID-19 passports have already happened in most countries, particularly in the EU. If they were built with open source and open international standards, with actual privacy and security, then it would be harm minimization. 

There are some components in the EU DGC that we might want to extract and properly specify.

Grüße, Carsten

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