WHO partners with Deutsche Telekom to push global vaccine passport system

The Covid pandemic is truly turning into “a gift that keeps on giving” when it comes to governments and organizations using it to usher in long-term policies and schemes that are questionable, from the privacy, data security, and even national sovereignty point of view.

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The UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) is now preparing to roll out a worldwide pandemic treaty and is teaming up with Germany’s Deutsche Telekom, one of the world’s biggest telecoms, to “link every person on the planet to a QR code digital ID” that will allow for the establishment of a global vaccination passport system.

But there are fears that the emerging system – of which the global vaccination passport is only one part – represents a risk to UN member-states’ sovereignty.

The plan for the treaty was approved by WHO’s Health Assembly last December, which reports said held only its second se...