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https://medium.com/-at-aarondavidsonn/the-health-passport-a-green-light-for-tyranny-545298e108d
The Health Passport — A Green Light for Tyranny?
Aaron Davidson
Aaron Davidson
Jun 19, 2020·8 min read
The Digital Health Passport is now being proposed in the UK as a safe
route back to work and life. Few are aware exactly what this safe route
looks like — and what the implications are for the future.
What is the Digital Health Passport?
In basic terms, this is an app which gives you a Green, Amber or Red
light. A Green light means you are not infected with Coronavirus, an
Amber light means your status needs updating, and a Red light means you
are in quarantine and/or infected.
The V-Health promotional video explains that you need a test to prove
your status which must be entered by a health professional and held in a
database. This test is then only valid for a limited period of time, and
your light will gradually turn from green to amber to red as you reach
your next test date.
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V-Health screenshots showing infection status
The concept and design of this app emulates a system already in use in
China.
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Screenshots from Shanghai’s official Health QR Code app
Where will it be used?
In the UK, the passport is already being proposed to gain entrance to
sporting events, ‘public services’ i.e. transport, and offices. Airlines
around the world are proposing Health Passports as a requirement to fly.
How is it being used already?
Lets look at how it is currently being used in China — the prototype not
only of the rest of the world’s Lockdown, but also for Track & Trace
Surveillance and the Traffic Light Health Passport. In regions in China,
it is currently not possible to use public transport or enter any office
or shop, including supermarkets and pharmacies without showing a green
light status. There are local roadblocks marking the boundaries of
neighbourhoods and districts which require drivers to present their pass.
The Chinese system also tracks GPS data — for example — if you have
travelled to an area deemed high risk or had contact with an infected
person during the past 14 days, your status could suddenly turn red. A
red status is an automatic 2 week quarantine in isolation, and a yellow
status is 7 days quarantine. You may not necessarily be told why your
status has changed or have any way to appeal it.
There are proposals now to extend this health passport beyond the
coronavirus, and track other elements of lifestyle including food &
cigarette purchases and exercise. Technology incubator cities such as
Hangzhou are proposing to control who is fit to have children using data
from the app.
There are also proposals for “group health scores” for companies, which
tracks overall employee behaviour.
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Reporting from The World is One News Channel
The seamless expansion of Health to Everything
What this long term planning for health scoring indicates, is a seamless
merging of health status with the existing social credit scoring system.
Citizens in China have a social credit status based on their purchase
habits, financial record, and social behaviour. Good behaviour earns
points and bad behaviour knocks points off.
A high score (green & blue) allows people to travel without restriction,
have access to borrowing and housing, get shopping discounts and luxury
hotel rooms. A low score (amber & red) restricts travel, internet speed,
access to private education, access to large online shopping portals,
renting & buying property, and access to hotels. In 2018, 50 million
people in China were denied airline and train tickets due to low social
credit scores. Employers may deny jobs on the basis of low scores.
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Chinese Social Credit Score Interface
Examples of good behaviour:
paying off debts
paying bills on time
reporting other people’s behaviour
giving blood
donating to charity
visiting parents
Examples of bad behaviour:
Bad driving
Jaywalking
Smoking on trains
Buying too many video games, junk food, and alcohol
Calling a friend who has a low credit score
Having a friend online who has a low credit score
Posting “fake news” online
Visiting unauthorised websites
Walking your dog without a leash
Letting your dog bark too much
Now special new coronavirus crimes have been added to the bad list:
concealing travel history in areas affected by the virus
contact with patients or suspected patients
evading isolation or medical observation
It is worth noting that many of these bad behaviours are either reported
by other people (gaining points themselves by doing so) or picked up on
camera using facial recognition and phone location data — enabled by 5G
technology. These other people may also be professionals — the Track &
Trace army, now being introduced in Western countries including the UK
and USA.
Public surveillance in China
Should we be concerned in the UK and the West?
We should be very concerned. This represents a total destruction of
personal privacy.
The proposed V-Health passport is built upon V-Platform technology. This
technology is designed to be an all purpose digital Passport & Payment
system. It has already been designed to enable cardless, cashless
shopping where you scan and pay for individual products without even
needing a checkout. Every product and ticket you purchase on and offline
can be individually tracked and used to build your data record. This,
combined with presentation at shops, transport stations, offices and
entertainment facilities, also tracks your detailed public movements.
As the marketing declares, the possibilities are infinite. This is no
temporary crisis measure.
This is a Life Time Value Added ePassport. VCode® links directly to
any form of information such as websites, videos, photos, books,
documents and much more.
Your VCode® can store anything from identity details, health
records, payment methods, car registration numbers, business card
details, social media links and much more all from the same code.
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VCode® — the Technology of Infinite possibilities
Tymothy Snyder, one of the world’s leading historians of the twentieth
century, explains:
Totalitarianism is not an all-powerful state, but the erasure of the
difference between private and public life. We are free insofar as we
exercise control over what people know about us and in what
circumstances they come to know it.
Digital Technocracy holds the potential to be the most authoritarian
rule the world has ever seen. Lets not blindly accept the imminent tools
of control, prototyped in China, coming our way.
Background Information
The Digital Health Passport is already shipping, and contracts have been
signed with 15 countries including the US, Canada, Sweden, Spain, South
Africa, Italy, Portugal, France, Panama, India, Mexico, United Arab
Emirates and the Netherlands.
The elapsed time between Western lockdowns starting in March until VST’s
Press Release on 08 May, is 2 months. This is spectacularly fast work
for an app development process — which includes design, programming,
testing, regional adaptation and international contract negotiations
covering 15 national health systems. This system requires separate
interfaces and functionality for consumers, medical administrators, and
system administrators.
In the US, the Health Passport is branded COVI-PASS™. The COVI-PASS™
technology is certified by the United Nations and bears an European
Union Commission Seal of Excellence.
In the UK and elsewhere, there is no evidence of any public
consultations carried out during the development process of this app.
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The US version marketed as COVI-PASS™
The company developing the app is VST Enterprises Ltd. of
Manchester, developers of VCode and V-Platform, the technology powering
the V-Health Passport. The Health Passport is built on top of these
platforms.
VCode is like a next generation QR code, which ensures ‘Military
Grade’ encryption and can be scanned metres away and while in motion ‘to
ensure social distancing’.
The size of the code can be readable as small as 100 microns. A
human hair is between 30 and 300 microns diameter. In other words, this
code can be read at the size of an injectable microchip.
On 19 March 2020, The UK government announced COVID-19 was no longer
considered to be a high consequence infectious disease (HCID).
In the US, evidence based on data received by the Center for Disease
Control (CDC) prior to April 29 2020, estimated the death rate from
COVID-19 could be as low as 0.26%. A death rate of 0.26% is within the
normal range for a seasonal flu. Why do we need a drastic digital
solution to go back to work and life?
As a global population, we must rigorously question the assumed need for
this passport, which threatens to destroy our personal privacy and freedoms.
Update August 2020
There is a legal challenge in the UK to stop the Health Passport
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/join-the-legal-challenge-to-st/
References
COVI-PASS™ Marketing Site (USA)
https://www.covipass.com/
USA Marketing of VST’s Health Passport
V-Health Marketing Site (UK)
https://v-healthpassport.co.uk/
UK Marketing of VST’s VHealth Passport
We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China’s Surveillance State
by Kai Strittmatter
Published by Old Street Publishing (24 May 2019)
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by Timothy Snyder
Published by Vintage Digital (02 March 2017)
Chinese Street surveillance. Object / Face Recognition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE1kA0Jy0Xg&feature=emb_logo
Sep 22 2017
In Coronavirus Fight, China Gives Citizens a Color Code, With Red Flags
March 01, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/business/china-coronavirus-surveillance.html
Health QR Code Made Available To More Residents
March 02 2020
https://www.shanghaieye.com.cn/health-qr-code-made-available-to-more-residents/
China is using coronavirus to boost its dystopian social credit system
03 March 2020
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit-coronavirus
Covid-19: Tracking apps boost state surveillance in China
April 20, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy4mSmFXVLM
Cyber Company to Supply 50M Health “COVI-PASS(TM)”
May 08, 2020
http://en.acnnewswire.com/press-release/english/58924/cyber-company-to-supply-50m-health-
Green or red light: China coronavirus app is ticket to everywhere
May 02, 2020
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/05/13/asia-pacific/china-coronavirus-app/#.XuQKHmr0mS4
CDC’s Latest ‘Best Estimate’ of COVID Death Rate Is 13 Times Lower Than
Initial WHO Claim
May 25, 2020
https://www.westernjournal.com/cdcs-latest-best-estimate-covid-death-rate-13-times-lower-initial-claim/
Gravitas: This Chinese city will keep a ‘health score’ of its citizens
26 May 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INlQVFtpysc
A Chinese city plans to monitor its citizens and rank them by
healthiness with an app, making its emergency COVID-19 surveillance
regime permanent
May 26, 2020
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-china-hangzhou-proposes-permanent-health-tracking-app-2020-5
Antibody tests for Covid-19 wrong up to half the time, CDC says
May 27, 2020
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/26/health/antibody-tests-cdc-coronavirus-wrong/index.html
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