Privacy watchdogs urge caution on COVID-19 vaccine passports – CBC
Passports must be developed and implemented in compliance with applicable privacy laws
May 20, 2021
New Brunswick’s privacy commissioner and ombud has joined his colleagues across the country in urging governments and businesses to make privacy a priority in any discussions about introducing COVID-19 vaccine passports.
The passports would allow people to travel and gather again and could support economic recovery while protecting public health.
But Charles Murray says they’re also an encroachment on civil liberties that would also require people to disclose personal health information.
“We certainly see that this movement [toward passports] is becoming kind of inevitable … but we are concerned that there is a risk to people’s privacy with both the creation and the possible uses of a document like this,” he said Thursday.
