Vaccine passports: Government must focus on ‘equity, privacy and security’

A vaccine passport is for everyone just like a government is for everyone – it needs to be designed that way, Andrew Mayfield says on RNZ. The government’s design strategy, and its ethical implications, must be considered with the same gravity that they would approach the most important policy going through Parliament. New Zealand’s ‘vaccine passport’ is likely to be a digital Covid-19 vaccination certificate containing a QR code. Like any software implementation, partnering with diverse community bodies should be encouraged, funded and supported throughout the development and implementation of vaccine passports.