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This is pretty cool, from a "check-in-self-serve-here" perspective. In contrast, in Quebec Canada, the QR codes are issued to people once they get vaccinated,
by minaguib 5y ago
This is pretty cool, from a "check-in-self-serve-here" perspective.
In contrast, in Quebec Canada, the QR codes are issued to people once they get vaccinated, and contain the person's name and vaccination(s) statuses, and digital signature by the issuer directly in the QR code.
The government then published 2 apps on the app stores:
* App for users to easily host the QR code (instead of email/PDFs/etc), but more importantly:
* App for businesses to scan the user-presented QR code and validate the signature, to allow into the premises (after also checking a photo ID to ensure person face matches ID and ID name matches name in QR code)
The above is because some businesses, like sit-down restaurants (even if eating on the terrace), are required to ensure patrons are fully vaccinated.
I don't know if the "scan" app also remembers who it scans for contact-tracing purposes or not - but there's a separate contact-tracing app for that, also published by the government, that uses iOS's and Android's contact-tracing facilities.
- hnick 5y agoHere we get a PDF for our vaccination status. Easily faked of course, but they only really started checking them after we "reopened" 2 days ago when we hit the required vaccination rate for gyms, bars, etc.
- zik 5y agoIt's being done differently in Victoria. We can link our vaccination certificate to the Services Vic app and it's displayed as a QR code when we check in.
- hnick 5y agoDictatorships tend to be more efficient at getting things done ;) They could do so much more with the check ins. We had a rule that one household member could leave once per day for essential shopping. It would be trivial to get people in trouble based on known addresses and check in history, same for the 5km rule. But they clearly don't want to antagonise the populace too much.
- toomanybeersies 5y ago> But they clearly don't want to antagonise the populace too much. It's more likely because the government realises that if they started fining people for correctly checking in, but going to the shops twice in a day, is likely to result in them just not checking in at all. Also, the app doesn't require users to actually verify your name or phone number, so you could just put anyone's details in and they'd start copping fines for your misbehaviour.