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Recommendations for decision-makers include:
Do What is Effective, Not What is Trending: While existing vaccine
certificate systems have their issues, they work. They do not carry the
dangers of expansive digital vaccine certificate programs and
infrastructure. Prioritize people and their needs, not a technical tool,
and optimize for solutions that are less intrusive and that do not
hinder rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.
Prioritize Data Protection: This means minimizing data collection and
retention, meeting and going beyond legal requirements, and following
privacy-by-design principles to ensure robust respect for human rights.
This broadly applies to both public and private sector actors, including
schools and universities, who should only register vaccine status once
and should refrain from linking vaccine status to third-party services.
Government contracts should be granted through open processes, for
limited terms, and strictly limit the purposes, uses, and sharing of
personal data.
Be Transparent in both Design and Implementation: Bear in mind
uncertainties, both about the landscape of vaccines and their long-term
efficacy and about the unintended consequences of new digital vaccine
certificates. Keep the door open to civil society consultation, maintain
the highest standards of care in auditing potential new tools, and
communicate clearly with the public to avoid spread of misinformation.
Be Equitable and Inclusive: Access to any digital vaccine certificate
should be free of charge, accessible, and paired with easily accessible
paper-based forms as an interchangeable alternative. All approved
vaccines should hold the same value.
Focus: Digital vaccine certificates and other COVID-19 response
mechanisms must not be treated as a vehicle for accelerating digital
transformation more broadly, and especially must not be used to advance
adoption of centralized and mandatory digital identity systems that harm
human rights. Dedicate resources to meeting the needs of the current
moment, and avoid quickly implementing new or expanding existing systems
that will have decades-long consequences without proper due diligence
and care for human rights.
Prevent Abuse – Now and in the Future: Governments should include sunset
clauses and strict data retention periods in any public policy approving
the use of a digital vaccine certificate, and the collection of
COVID-19-related data more broadly. Both government agencies and
companies who stand to profit from the implementation of digital vaccine
certificate systems must refrain from capitalizing on COVID-19
vaccination efforts to expand surveillance, silence dissent, or restrict
freedom of expression, assembly, and movement. Longer term, prevent
future harms and exclusion by ensuring universal access to high-quality
internet and funding community-led digital literacy programs that leave
no one behind.
Don’t Create Division: Digital vaccine certificates should never be
mandatory for exercising fundamental rights and freedoms. Systems that
make digital vaccine certificates an actual or de facto requirement will
divide and exclude, placing the heaviest burden on those who have
already suffered the worst consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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