Vaccine passports are raising privacy and equity concerns

Published: Feb. 17, 2021, 5:10 a.m.

Countries like Iceland, Sweden and Denmark are moving forward with plans to roll out so-called vaccine passports for individuals who have been inoculated against COVID-19. But some experts say the idea raises ethical and logistical concerns. Matt Galloway is joined by Brian Behlendorf, managing director of blockchain, health care and identity at the Linux Foundation, which is working on vaccine passport software, while Alison Thompson, a bioethicist and associate professor at the University of Toronto, weighs in on some of the concerns around equity.