In the US context I would say this is a privacy violation. It's another avenue of obtaining identifying information about you, to abuse with no restrictions.
But one of the main benefits of the GDPR is making it illegal for businesses to keep surveillance records on you. This way you don't have to worry about keeping basic information like your name secret in the first place.
The US really needs something like the GDPR to restore some societal trust. As it stands, I'm planning on wearing a mask into stores etc for as long as I can get away with it.
> In the US context I would say this is a privacy violation.
Yeah, but that's the US. Which is well known for being pretty wacky on these things.
> It's another avenue of obtaining identifying information about you, to abuse with no restrictions.
How? You hold up your vaccine pass to the bouncer, and your photo ID, so he can see that the vaccine pass is actually yours: He compares the face in the ID to yours, and the name on the pass to that on the ID. Then he turns away from you and says "Next, please". In two minutes he has forgotten your name, and in thirty he remembers your face to the extent that he can say "Yeah, I think I let that one in tonight."
Does he photograph your pass and ID, or type them into some computer system? Hardly. So what's to "abuse"?
> This way you don't have to worry about keeping basic information like your name secret in the first place.
In any sane society, your name isn't supposed to be a secret.
Dang, Americans are a funny people. Paranoid about all the wrong things.
But one of the main benefits of the GDPR is making it illegal for businesses to keep surveillance records on you. This way you don't have to worry about keeping basic information like your name secret in the first place.
The US really needs something like the GDPR to restore some societal trust. As it stands, I'm planning on wearing a mask into stores etc for as long as I can get away with it.