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The story began when the XIX. At the end of the 20th century, due to the smallpox epidemic at the time, it became increasingly hot in America’s schools to check whether someone had already been vaccinated or not. Both students and teachers feared that if they entered the community, they would contract the infection.
The vaccination supervisory bodies began issuing vaccination certificates at that time. Then, when the yellow fever epidemic swept across the world in the 1960s, the WHO, or World Health Organization, released a new document on international travel, the well-known Yellow Book. This was sealed by the epidemiological authorities (in Hungary, for example, in the corresponding department of the Szent László Hospital) that travelers to exotic landscapes around the world received the necessary injections against yellow fever or malaria. This brochure was, of course, on paper.
Today, when not only the vaccine has been very close, but vaccination has already started in some countries, and the process begins today in Hungary, the question has arisen: how can more modern digital methods be used to demonstrate that Has anyone been vaccinated? against the coronavirus. Interestingly, at the height of the infocommunication revolution, vaccinated Britons received the same cardboard as proof of vaccination that they issued 100 years ago.
Dilemma: Have you been vaccinated or infected? It doesn’t matter at all …
In October, a specialized UN agency started an experiment with Estonia on digital vaccine certificates. Originally, he was considering cross-border data tracking and a WHO project that would later attempt to make the vaccine available to the poorest states. Finally, the UN has suggested that the antibodies recovered from the virus do not entitle them to receive Covid passports. As a result, the WHO has already recommended that Member States refrain from issuing an immunity passport to those who have recovered from the coronavirus. The UN is a trump card for this, saying that only after vaccination should countries be allowed to cross the border, the evidence is not enough.
Then of course there are more serious issues of data protection and the protection of fundamental human rights, even when we think of digital vaccine passports.
The president of the British Society for Immunology said it would be great if vaccination certificates were available on a mobile app and even a signal arrived before protection expired. At the same time, though, you’re concerned that, let’s say, only those who can test in their own app will be admitted to a restaurant – they’ve already been vaccinated. What about those who do not want to download the application?
However, there are also legal and ethical issues. It is fine for the central health center to send all the information about vaccination and tests to my phone with the help of the app, but then it must ensure with the appropriate improvements that this data does not fall into unauthorized hands.
Then the eternal dilemma: how can we find a balance between individual rights and the rights of society in general? I mean, my vaccine protects me, but if I am inadvertently, let’s say unintentional, I have no protection against my family or anyone else I know.
According to lawyer András Jóri, a virus passport is not in conflict with data protection principles (and the GDPR regulation in Europe). The European Data Protection Board, made up of the European Union’s data protection supervisory authorities, has been following developments since the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic and has issued resolutions on data management requirements. National authorities, including the Hungarian NAIH, did the same. If such a project is created, it will probably be coordinated at the EU level in the framework of international cooperation, the former data protection commissioner told the Index.
The fact that we have to use such a passport or communicate our health data to airlines, for example, does limit data protection rights, but the restriction can also be implemented to a proportionate and necessary extent. In my opinion, a virus passport alone would be a necessary GDPR compliant way to reconcile data protection and other rights during a pandemic.
András Jóri added.
If this is necessary to get the economy back on track
Digital vaccine passports are seen by many as one of the most important safeguards for farm recovery. If vaccination is widespread and vaccinated people can prove it, it can save the life, for example, of workers entering and producing in factories, or the negotiating partner sitting in a business meeting without having to worry about being infected or not.
The same is the case with international tourism. Australian airline Quantas, for example, is already considering making it mandatory for its passengers to present some form of immunity before boarding in the near future; of course, it is not yet known to be in the form of a vaccination brochure or professional chili-villi application.
Viktor Orbán has already talked about this
The prime minister addressed this in a Facebook video leading up to Christmas. As you said:
We have looked at the digital version of the vaccine certificate because we are preparing to make sure that those who are already protected, who have previously been infected or who have been vaccinated to protect themselves, have a certificate indicating that they are protected or no longer infect nobody. . This is in line with the ambition of the European Union to create such a digital passport. The first version of this was now developed by the Home Office and we were able to see it.
Gergely Gulyás, the minister who heads the Prime Minister’s Office, also confirmed in response to a question in the latest Government Information of the year that We will likely have a vaccine passport as well, as there are plans to introduce it in many parts of the union, especially if vaccination becomes massive, and this will be mainly required by airlines by travelers.
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