A patent has been issued for a process that would bring together vast areas of personal information collected from digital activity, including biometric data, to assess an individual’s behavior with a view to calculating their priority for a COVID vaccination . Put simply, a way to determine who is digital behavior suggests risky behavior in the real world.
The patent is described as “Methods and systems for prioritizing treatment, vaccination, testing and / or activity while protecting the privacy of individualsâ€. It was published at the end of August to patent attorneys Gal Ehrlich and Maier Fenster of Ehrlich & Fenster, as spotted by Recover the Net.
The proposed system would combine a target’s online presence with medical records, electronic payments, employment records, location data, and even surveillance sequences to profile their risk of acquiring or spreading. COVID. It integrates facial recognition data and movement / location data to determine if they are in public transport.
It even goes so far as to try to access the device’s microphones to determine if there are any sounds of hands washing. Access to the device’s cameras could assess whether the owner is wearing a mask.
Visiting crowded places such as places of worship or nightclubs would increase a person’s score. The higher the score, the higher the priority for vaccination.
Scottish vaccination app ‘shares data with Amazon’
Meanwhile, much simpler systems prove problematic. Scotland’s COVID Vaccination Health Pass Gives Access to Users’ Personal Data to Private Companies, Scottish Investigation Finds Sunday mail, sister title of the Daily Record.
The digital health card application developed for NHS Scotland to provide a QR code to access certain sites allows data access by Amazon, Microsoft, Royal Mail and the digital identity companies Jumio and iProov, causing a backlash among civil liberties activists. There is no consent or denial, according to the Sunday Mail, which states that “it is claimed that not all businesses can ‘access’ data, even if it is ‘shared’.
“The Scottish Liberal Democrats have repeatedly warned the government that data protection is virtually non-existent – a simple screenshot was enough to bypass the ‘security measures’ the system had in place. The launch was a mess and the computer system struggled to cope, â€the Sunday Mail said quoting Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton.
“Everyone has the right to medical confidentiality, no one should ever have to provide part of their medical history to a bouncer or a series of private companies. It is simply absurd.
The first weekend of application of the Scottish health pass required to enter places such as nightclubs and football fields saw hundreds of people turned away, staff abused and sites choosing to close early, the BBC reports.
The system was introduced in early October with a 17-day grace period. A person must have completed a full vaccination course to be able to access the “analog roomsâ€. It works via a smartphone or a paper QR code.
“The experience of this weekend shows that the result has been intolerable levels of abuse of our staff and the creation of an atmosphere that will totally undermine the enjoyment of each of our night spots,†said Stephen Montgomery, spokesperson for the Scottish Hospitality Group, BBC.
“Pushing people back out the door – yes, I understand to a point – but all that does is send them somewhere else, a dance floor with tables and chairs that avoids dancing. “
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