Paris Marx is joined by Elizabeth Renieris to discuss why we should be concerned about proposals for vaccine passports and how they could create a precedent for a larger rollout of digital identity documents.Elizabeth Renieris is a practitioner fellow at Stanford University’s Digital Civil Society Lab and a tech + human rights fellow  at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Follow Elizabeth on Twitter as @hackylawyer.🎉 In April 2021, Tech Won’t Save Us celebrates its first birthday. If we get 30 new supporters at $5+ per month, we’ll start a weekly newsletter in addition to the weekly podcast to provide a new way for people to access critical perspectives on technology. If you like the show, become a supporter and help us reach our goal!Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode:

• Elizabeth wrote about what’s really at stake in the vaccine passport debate.
• The US federal government has talked about leaving this to the private sector, the EU is planning a “digital green pass” for travel, and Israel rolled out a “green passport” for vaccinated people to gain access to various public and private spaces.
• Contact tracing apps did not deliver on their big promises.
• New York’s vaccine passport has already been forged.
• Rolling out vaccine passports has high costs for businesses who will want to use that infrastructure in other ways.
• Parts of the Global South may not receive mass Covid vaccinations until 2024.
• The modern passport regime was created in the 1920s, with the goal being to eventually abolish it. Now borders are being rights-groups-cbp-facial-recognition-airports-seaports-211020854.html">equipped with facial recognition cameras and border guards can check your phone.

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