There is an ongoing debate about the privacy and security issues related to the use of vaccine
passports. These passports would typically be a mobile app that had access to your medical records,
or held medical information about you in the device itself, and would be able to display a QR code
that represented your vaccination status. There are of course many important policy issues related to
the use of such an app, but for this question, focus on the cybersecurity issues related to
implementing such as app. How is the industry planning to manage security issues such as user
authentication, or other issues related to confidentiality, integrity and availability of the medical
data?
Here are some relevant links for this prompt:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/02/vaccine-passports-apps-faq/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/05/immunity-passports-are-threat-our-privacy-and-information-security
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2021/04/12/hawaiis-vaccine-passport-is-slated-to-roll-out-by-summer/?sh=3c3d97753dbc