"Paper is always going to be less of a risk for unintended compromise of anything digital," she said. But that requires longer-term planning for a vaccine response that's largely created in real time, said Eva Velasquez, the president of the Identity Theft Resource Center, a victim advocacy organization. One alternative is allowing vaccine distributors, such as state governments and pharmacies, to print official cards with more built-in safeguards, more akin to a driver's license. "I think this is a good example of that." You know sometimes when you're looking at smart technology, and you're like, 'Does that really need to be smart? Was that a thing that I needed in my life?'" she said. "We have an analog system that works for the purposes of what we're doing. "Setting up massive systems for tracking folks, collecting their information, and then with no kind of exit plan, how is that data going to be treated?" she said. More programs like New York's Excelsior program - so far the only statewide smartphone app that functions as a vaccine passport - would create more ways for individuals' data to be monitored, said Hayley Tsukayama, a legislative activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights nonprofit. "The initial goal for posting the document was to make things a little easier for community providers," a department spokesperson said.ĭespite how easy the cards are to forge, digital privacy advocates say that a paper-based system is still preferable to a central online database or smartphone app. Wyoming’s Health Department also confirmed its template was removed April 1, citing "misuse." "CDC has consistently advised states not to post the vaccine card template publicly," CDC spokesperson Kate Grusich said in a statement. The CDC has since delivered guidance to states to pull the templates from their sites, citing “misuse” by the anti-vaccine community, according to state officials. On conspiracy and anti-government forums throughout the web, users have linked to card templates that were left visible on the websites of state governments, including high-resolution PDFs from the websites of both the Wyoming and Missouri health departments.
In March, the FBI released a public warning that creating or buying a fake vaccine card is illegal. "How are you going to make someone at the opposite end, the ones who are supposed to be verifying these, to look at one and determine if it's legitimate or if it's fake?" she said. "There's absolutely nothing about it that would prevent you from reproducing it." "It's a cardboard paper card," said Alyssa Miller, a cybersecurity expert who specializes in protecting large organizations.
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