Tag: passports
  • Mar 2, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cryptocurrency, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments,

Is this the future of Covid-19 vaccine passports: open source and based on the Ethereum blockchain?

It was only last week that Privacy News Online wrote about introducing vaccine passports in order to provide additional freedoms to those who have received one of the Covid-19 vaccines. And yet the idea has taken off in a remarkable way, driven no doubt by the desperate desire by both businesses and the public to … Continue reading “Is this the future of Covid-19 vaccine passports: open source and based on the Ethereum blockchain?”

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  • Feb 24, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Covid-19 vaccine passports for travel and work are coming: what are the implications for human rights, privacy and surveillance?

It is almost exactly a year ago that this blog first talked about the implications of Covid-19 for freedom of speech, surveillance and privacy – one of the earliest to do so. Since then, the pandemic has come to dominate the news and daily life. Perhaps the most important development in the last twelve months … Continue reading “Covid-19 vaccine passports for travel and work are coming: what are the implications for human rights, privacy and surveillance?”

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  • Nov 1, 2019 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Beyond Aadhaar: India wants to create a giant centralized facial recognition database

Two years ago, Privacy News Online wrote about Aadhaar, India’s billion-person biometric database, used to check identity, and its potential to become the world’s biggest privacy disaster. Barely six months after that post, it emerged that access to the Aadhaar database could be bought very cheaply, as reported here by the Indian newspaper The Tribune: … Continue reading “Beyond Aadhaar: India wants to create a giant centralized facial recognition database”

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  • Aug 7, 2017 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments,

Ireland planning to introduce national identity cards by stealth, with no debate and unclear privacy safeguards

National identity cards are an emotive topic. In the UK, the ID card debate raged for years before and after the authorities there passed a law in 2006 to introduce them. Five years later, a change of government saw the law being repealed as a result of widespread public concerns. The Irish government seems to … Continue reading “Ireland planning to introduce national identity cards by stealth, with no debate and unclear privacy safeguards”

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