Security News > 2021 > February > The fine line between global COVID-19 protocols and privacy
A panel of experts considers the best methods for safe domestic and international air travel including proof of testing, vaccination passports, and digital health passes.
A recent panel conducted by the security firm Concentric Advisors, "Protocols, Testing, and Proof of Vaccine-What is the future of privacy and travel?" took a deep dive predicting how domestic and international air travel can be safely mandated during the continuing COVID-19 worldwide pandemic.
Contact tracing internationally is an odious task that requires a standard rivaling that of an actual travel passport.
Travel during the pandemic and efforts to either skirt or hide COVID-19 status has been extremely challenging to wrangle.
Established standards would subsequently lead to a more global "Self-sovereign identity concept" and an "Ecosystem of overlapping trust," as Lim suggested.
"Lim's"Self-sovereign identity concept" is about each individual controlling their own identity and their own vaccine status, for "individual control of your information" and "really feeds into the privacy protection, needed from a security perspective.