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Smartphone developers are gearing up for a world where users can store their Covid vaccination proof in their phones\u2019 digital wallets, making it easy to simply tap their phones when they enter new buildings.\"a\u00a9 Provided by NBC News<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The development, which\u00a0concerns some privacy advocates, comes as the delta variant of the coronavirus surges through the U.S. and some cities plan to require people to prove they\u2019ve been vaccinated to enter places like gyms, restaurants and bars.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google, Apple and Samsung have all recently announced plans to offer a feature that readily calls up a QR code that can be scanned to quickly verify a user\u2019s vaccination status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samsung, which manufactures Galaxy smartphones, announced Wednesday that it is partnering with the Commons Project, developers of one of a number of vaccine passport smartphone apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like New York state\u2019s Excelsior Pass, the CommonHealth app asks users to undergo a one-time process by sharing their names and their dates of birth and the dates and locations of their vaccinations. The app connects with vaccination providers to verify the information, and if it\u2019s correct, it creates scannable QR codes embedded with that information.\"graphical\u00a9 Samsung A Vaccine Pass feature has been added to Samsung Pay. (Samsung)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRather than having to pull up CommonHealth \u2014 which is a personal health records app, which isn\u2019t really designed for walking into a grocery store and showing a QR code \u2014 now you can store this in a much more convenient place,\u201d said JP Pollak, the app\u2019s chief architect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can imagine that at some point in the future, your vaccine record happens to be something you need with that great of frequency,\u201d Pollak said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June, Google\u00a0announced\u00a0that it had developed similar technology for all updated Android phones and that it was seeking vaccination providers. And Apple has said the iPhone\u2019s next operating system, iOS 15, will offer a\u00a0similar feature\u00a0when it is released in the fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden administration has said it will create no federal vaccine passport, leaving states and private companies to verify people\u2019s vaccination statuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The closest thing to a federal system is the card issued to people who get Covid vaccine shots. But the cards are clunky <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York and California have created what are effectively state vaccine passports, with which residents can call up proof of their vaccinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York City\u00a0began\u00a0mandating that residents be vaccinated to enter places like bars, gyms and movie theaters Tuesday. San Francisco\u2019s\u00a0similar initiative\u00a0begins Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many passport apps, like New York\u2019s Excelsior Pass and CommonHealth, have built-in privacy protections like storing the QR code that contains a person\u2019s vaccination status on the phone itself, rather than in the cloud, where it could be accessed by third parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the very existence of digital vaccine passports, which can make records of when people sign in at particular locations as vaccinated, gives some privacy advocates pause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have worries that we\u2019re increasingly headed toward a world where we need to have half a dozen, a dozen different apps just to navigate the day and prove we\u2019re vaccinated to the different institutions we want to enter,\u201d said Albert Fox Cahn, the director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a nonprofit organization in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReally, I feel like that, on the whole, having the vaccine card that I carry in my pocket every day is every bit as effective and has none of the drawbacks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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