SOURCE: PrivacyToGo via Off Guardian<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On June 30th, 2021, the Google Developers blog announced<\/a> the launch of vaccine passports in Android through its Passes API<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Less than 24 hours later, the European Union, long mired in a sea of national standards for digital jab records, rolled out its EU-wide vaccine passport<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two completely different vaccine passport schemes unveiled on the same day, encompassing the whole of the Western world? What are the odds<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Exceedingly low, of course. This level of coordination belies yet another blitz in the ongoing rollout of a global, technofeudal control grid. The EU has arguably been at the forefront of this rollout \u2013 its standardized digital jab certificate is little more than an aggregator for the draconian technology now operating at the Nation-State level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adoption of this unified standard is already approaching 100% of EU Member States<\/a>. Doublethink rhetoric of restoring the Schengen Area\u2019s \u201cfreedom of movement\u201d abounds<\/a>, even as additional barriers to travel are erected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this sense, Google and the US are playing catch-up. While de facto vaccine passports have been implemented sparingly in places like New York<\/a>, California<\/a>, and Hawaii<\/a>, an ever-expanding number of States have banned<\/a> the notion outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet herein lies the insidiousness of the public-private partnership<\/a> model: Technocrats can use governments where it suits them, corporations where it does not, and an increasingly bizarre fusion of the two where necessary. Even the propaganda rollout surrounding jab passports is bifurcated by this model, with the EU using official government bulletins<\/a> while Google syndicates the news via trendy tech blogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And though many States in the US have passed legislation or executive action to curb the implementation of vaccine passports, Google couldn\u2019t care less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n