Passport To Nowhere: About Those QR Codes

Let Them Eat Taser 49 Comments

I sent the following questions to Sask Health a few weeks ago about the SK Vax Verifier app used to scan QR codes;

1. Do these apps record and/or report the location of the code holder back to the database to which they are linked, or to any other government department or contracted private entity?

2. If so, for what purpose is this data collected?

3. If so, is the information collected and returned by these apps shared (in whole or in part) with other governments and/or contracted private entities?

(If these questions have already been raised by others and answered, a simple redirect to that information will be satisfactory.)

I received an unsigned email that offered nothing more than “These would be questions that you would need to ask either eHealth Saskatchewan or the Saskatchewan Government.” That was all. Not even a contact number.

Well, that’s kind of vague. I mean, you’d think a bureaucracy with the power to impose $14K fines on small businesses who fail to scan those codes might know if and how the data collected was being used.

I got busy with travel and other things, but a story from October brings me back to it now;

The Scottish Government ’s controversial vaccination passport shares the personal data of users with a host of private firms, the Sunday Mail can reveal.

Proof of inoculation is now required by law to get into football grounds or nightclubs north of the border, despite plans for a scheme having been scrapped in England.

We have learned the NHS mobile phone app which presents the personal medical information in the form of a QR Code shares data with companies including Amazon, Microsoft, ServiceNow, Royal Mail and an AI facial recognition firm.

So, I wonder what the answer is? “There is no data collected, stored or shared as a result of scanning your Saskatchewan QR code” would be a good one.

49 Replies to “Passport To Nowhere: About Those QR Codes”

  2. No personal information of the person whose QR code is scanned is collected or shared would be a great answer. Wrong, but a great answer, NTL

    1. Like every thing else that has happened with this fake pandemic we can expect their tried and trusted 4 stage propagandist approach.
      1) We do not have a plan to share this info.
      2) We are not sharing this info at the current time.
      3) We are only going to share limited information where it’s deemed to be completely neccesary.
      4) We believe the sharing of all the information gathered will be very beneficial to the public good.

  3. Kate,
    What government, when given the opportunity to infringe on the rights of their people, would walk away from that opportunity?

    I think we all know what the answer is. Regardless of what they tell you.

  4. Everything scanned is recorded. Every keystroke is recorded somewhere. That is why the word no is imperative when it comes to vaxxes and vax passports.

    1. The RCMP has files on everyone. Even children.
      Everything the governments do is mostly illegal.
      The RCMP instead of destroying the Gun Registry kept every bit of it, illegally against the law.
      If No One In Government Obeys The Law Why Should We.
      Become UNGOVERNABLE.
      Break and bend every rule and law that you can get away with. FUCK THEM UP.

  5. Naked Body Scan Images Never Saved, TSA Says

    “The (body image scanning) technology is sent to the airports without the ability to save, transmit or print the images,” said Greg Soule, TSA spokesman, in an interview with CBSNews.com. “At airports, the images are examined by a security officer in a remote location, and, once the image is cleared, they’re deleted.”

    The confusion over whether the TSA will be saving basically naked body images taken in airport security lines is based on the fact that some other police agencies — like the U.S. Marshalls for example — have saved body scan images. Soule insists, however, that the TSA does not, nor will they ever, do so.

    Even in the case of a TSA agent discovering weapons or other hazardous material on a passenger through the body scan, the image is still not saved for use as evidence, Soule said.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/naked-body-scan-images-never-saved-tsa-says/

  6. I’ve got my 2 shots here in Alberta, won’t be getting the booster and don’t and won’t patronize any business that is part of the Kenney/Trudeau qr code bs. I am not carrying around my papers. Even before covid I refused to patronize bars or nightclubs that required scanning your id to get in.

    Haven’t eaten in a restaurant or gone out at all really since the Kenney vax passport came into effect. Pretty much grocery and liquor stores only.

  7. the NHS mobile phone app which presents the personal medical information in the form of a QR Code shares data with companies including Amazon, Microsoft, ServiceNow

    Because conservatives don’t understand how computers work: the app isn’t “sharing data with […] Amazon, Microsoft [and] ServiceNow”. The mobile app has to talk to servers somewhere, and those servers are hosted in Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure. ServiceNow is a support ticketing and incident response service; the app is talking to that so that when you tap the “report a problem” icon it creates a ticket in ServiceNow.

    This is all bog-standard mobile and web architecture. Now, if you want to argue that medical information is important enough that the government ought to be owning and operating its own secure data centers that’s a reasonable position, but the NHS isn’t sending your personal medical information to Microsoft and Amazon because the NHS servers are hosted in their cloud services any more than they’re sending your personal medical information to Microsoft because the NHS desktop PCs run Windows.

    2. As a conservative, and a computer programmer, I will respond with the question “HOW THE F CAN YOU KNOW THAT FOR A FACT?”

      Follow up: Who could have access to the data on MS Azure, or anywhere else on the cloud for that matter? How do you know who may be plugging into a cloud server, and for what purpose? Do you have any inside info? Do you work on a server farm?

      Let me give you a “for instance”… How do you suppose your MS PC computer knows when it’s time for an update?

      My laptop is constantly bugging me to update to Windows 11. How do you suppose MS knows that my computer is still on Windows 10?

    3. Daniel

      Your comment does not pass the smell test whatsoever.
      After 2 yrs of 100% PURE bullshit-lies-propaganda……you’re gonna come on here and tell us ALL that the Govt has no way of tracking/forwarding on pers information its own app may & most likely collects…??

      Spare me pls…
      Off with you..!! It’s obvious you require a 4th booster.

    5. but the NHS isn’t sending your personal medical information to Microsoft and Amazon because the NHS servers are hosted in their cloud services any more than they’re sending your personal medical information to Microsoft because the NHS desktop PCs run Windows.

      No, I’m sure they’re not sending my information to Amazon and Microsoft just because the NHS servers are located in their clouds, but they may also be sending my information to the larger Amazon and Microsoft because they have a contractual obligation to do so. Just because I have a bank account at a given bank doesn’t give me a valid excuse for the cops when they catch me inside the bank at two in the morning with a flashlight, a ski mask, and a set of burglar tools. Sure, I do have legitimate reasons to be in the bank, but not under these circumstances. Microsoft and Amazon do have legitimate reasons for being associated with your information, but what makes you think that’s where it begins and ends?

    6. The concern is two-fold. Is the handling of this data secure? How can we be confident in government declarations about where the data is being sent and how it is being used?
      Your condescending snark doesn’t address either question.

  10. And would you believe the answer to your questions?

    Do you have to let them scan it in SK? Or can you print it out and say ‘for your eyes only’?

  11. Why do they need a QR code to scan? All they needed was a card that has your name on it. No double dose = no card. They need to scan your card to get a green checkmark or a red X? Just give the card to the double dosed and be done with it. Apparently a copy of your immunization records showing all vaccinations including the double dose aren’t valid anymore……
    Must be the government, they screw up everything. Unless they have hidden plans……

  12. If they have the ability to save every email ever written, they obviously have the ability to track and save everything. We will be a society of one person living life, one person tracking that person.

  13. The Saskatchewan verifier app (SK Vax Verifier) is secure. The QR code is only scanned; the information is not saved or retained. An internet connection is not required to scan the QR code. We cannot speak for other verifier apps a business may use.

    ________________________________________________

    The fact that you were not referred to the Sask Health Q & A page is ominous IMO. The above passage is included in that Q & A. What it doesn’t say is if that information is passed on to another party that saves and retains.

  15. In Manitoba you can get a screen shot of your immunization record.
    It’s a legit government record of your immunization status.
    There is no QR code to scan, just your vaccination dates and what type, name and birth date.
    No data goes anywhere, airlines, sports venues accept it.
    I think you can pretty well guarantee location information is recorded when a QR is scanned and god knows what else. Why let an opportunity like that go to waste (said any overbearing bureaucrat).

  16. And when the information is released to all interested parties,the government line will be;
    “Oh we never expected that to happen”.

    Of course they are lying.
    Of course they are collecting every piece of data they can.
    It is what they do.
    Everything government does is shit.
    Lying,stealing and destroying private wealth is their skill set.
    So why would one expect any different behaviour from the New Gestapo?

  17. Having been coerced into receiving the jabs in order to cross the border and see my wife whom I haven’t seen in six months, there is no way I am using my phone to prove anything. I have two scraps of paper and they will have to do.

  18. Location data so they can do contact tracing was supposed to be a feature of these things, that sounds like stored information to me.

  19. Can’t the gummint put up some sort of ‘security fence’ to prevent computer hijinks?

    Asking for my friend Lorne.

  20. Absolutely they store this information in order to do “contact tracing” if we might all recall the purpose of the original app. Now the problem comes in where so many say “well they already track our phones so what difference does it make. Not wrong but that mentality is what got us in such a lab rat situation to begin with.

    1. I think they should have a scanner in every house, church, and community hall. Never know what kind of disease is lurking around. Could be some sort of wrongthinkitis happening somewhere.

  21. On a recent trip to Toronto, my wife was told that her Manitoba QR code was invalid for access to a restaurant. The restaurant insisted that she log into the Manitoba health database and show them details on when she received her shots and which ones. Sounds to me like someone, somewhere, wants to see details of your private medical info.

    1. Merely requesting my “vaxx” proof is asking for private medical info. It’s nobody’s f’ing business, least of all some pimply-faced, snot-nosed kid monitoring the front of a restaurant.

    2. Interesting information, since I assumed a QR code was more universal. Saw for the first time last week, when picking up a takeout order, People having to show their papers to get a table. It was nauseating and everything inside me was screaming “wrong wrong wrong”. Only the worthy shall reside at their tables but it’s totally ok for us to all stand in the same waiting area… although maybe I will be having to go to the back door in the future and just beg for scraps if the government gets their way 🙁

  22. Bottom line is this for me and my wife.
    We will not go out to eat until this NAZI edict is lifted
    PERIOD.

    And to be honest, wont bother me 1 iota.
    Not about to put some Bio Weaponry in my deltoid for the pleasure of eating out or “traveling”….or any other pursuit that requires proof of being a DRONE.

    (and yea, I definitely get it for those whose lives would be destroyed if they didn’t..via losing their jobs)

    NAZI Filth

    1. I feel like we could be friends. If you and your wife want to eat out, just stop over for a BBQ at my place 😉

  23. I sent an email to the Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner about whether the location of the device used to scan the code was collected. Obviously that would track the location of the person whose code was being checked. Never heard back. That this is a violation of the privacy of individuals is absolutely clear.

  24. What is keeping the government from stopping the double dosed from accessing things?
    Limit of two restaurant visits and one hockey game per month.
    Green checkmark or red X decides if you get in or not.

  25. This is pretty much like WW2 prisoners whining about the color of the tattoo on their wrists, except in this case, people actually volunteered to get it.

  27. Stonewalling, I believe is the term.
    I have e-mailed Dr. Bonnie Henry, Health Minister Adrian Dix and Premier John Horgan numerous times, asking for clarifications or providing information regarding the status of those of us with naturally acquired immunity.

    To date I have never received so much as an acknowledgement of receipt from any of them. Apparently information is solely a one way road, from government to plebes. Your concerns are not their concern.

    Shut up, do as you’re told and all will be well…. someday.

    1. Hey No Guff.
      I took your ‘No Mask” challenge in my Northern Ontario setting. Walked thru 3 stores maskless, no harassment.
      Checkout clerks were pleasant and chatty.

      1. What gets me in my part of the world is the amount of people in retail – where they are required to wear masks if I understand the current government health advice correctly – who openly free nose their masks.

        I have submitted to a mask on only a handful of occasions. Most of these were a couple of months ago when I went out of the city for a family gig. Wasn’t my home area, I was a guest, their town their rules. Other was the recent weekend when we were kicking on as a group after the work Christmas party and I MAY have been slightly thinking with my dick at the time (what can I say, I have some very attractive work mates. Don’t judge me! 😀 )

        All other times since late July I have just walked in boldly and acted like I knew what I was doing. You do need to pick your fights a bit and be sure to yourself that you WANT to be in this establishment, but you can, more or less, live without fear.

        At the moment. Local Gov going all Jab Judgemental lately, because what is ample evidence of Breakthrough Cases and the requirement for Boosters when Big Pharm has already made your Covid Roadmap for you.

  28. Can’t offer examples for the rest of the world, but QR codes in Australian have absolutely been used for not Covid purposes and the State governments in question feel no shame about it.

    First – that I know of – was the admission in WA that the police had used QR data as part of an ongoing investigation. Memory fuzzy but I believe they were tracking drug dealers. WA government? “Yeah? So?”

    Other – that I know of – was the Queensland Police using it to help track down the sidearm of a police officer who had ‘lost’ it in a hotel room.

    Again? Queensland Government? “Yeah? So?”

    Personally I make it a point to avoid carrying my phone as much as possible when out in public. Then, if pressed, sign in manually with pen and paper.
    Just remember that to question another person’s handwriting is a deliberate and hurtful attack and probably a hate crime. And Wacist. Cause letters are a White Colonial thing.

  29. It all started when the government needed to know your address, then your income, then your marital status, what kind of car you have, retirement savings, withdrawals over $10,000, how fast you were going through that green light…

    It is none of their business. Guard the borders, separate the criminals from the citizenry. They can’t even be trusted not to screw those two simple things up, why would we trust them with anything else?

  30. I also honestly question the practical effect of QR tracking.

    The intent is pretty clear. It allows health authorities to gage the interaction of various people and track down and contact people who may have been in contact with an infected person. Then they can shut it down before it spreads. Ya! Trust the Science!

    That is the theory.

    Let us workshop this a bit shall we?

    Here in Oz the data is stored for 14 days – apparently – under the assumption that the virus may have a 14 day danger cycle.

    So let us say that Victim Prime feels a bit ill and goes to the doctor. TEST TIME! yells the Doctor. Wooo.

    So then we wait for the test and 24 hours later they declare the person a Case.

    Then the process sloths into action. Somehow. The QR data is looked up and everyone on the data base that may have been in contact with Victim Prime are listed and contacted.

    Here we start to get into the fuzzy. Since you can have the virus but not even know it (they never explained that bit, did they? False Positive anyone?) you might be out and about for days, with the virus you don’t know you have, before you get a test. So let us assume you had the virus for 6 days before you noticed, then another day before the test confirms you as a case and maybe another before the System kicks in to process and then maybe ANOTHER day before the system starts contacting people to tell them to get a test as soon as possible.

    Now, since this is the Delta and the Delta is very very very transmittable (apparently) you could be a spreader from the moment you first get the virus (which you don’t notice cause you can have it and not even know it… apparently). So let us assume you were in a building with Victim Prime back on Day 1 of VP’s virus cycle.

    Say 2 days to get up to speed and then you also have the virus and do not even know it and are casually going about your day safe in the knowledge that your mask is keeping you 1.5m away from everyone everywhere. So in our little example nine days after you walk past Victim Prime you get contacted. So you may have been casually super spreading for 6 or 7 days.

    Sure, I am making casual numbers because I am not an officially Health Expert endorsed by the MSM, but can we see that there is no way the QR system is robust and agile enough to be anything but Reactive? By the time the system realises that Prime is a Case and tracks te first separation, any infected first separation people have already spent days out in public doing public things. Then Second separation has already happened and the Health types have to start tracking them down.

    QR is reactive. Not Proactive. Hence for preventing the spread it is next to useless and at best lets you know where it has been.

    Anyone like to change my mind then feel free, but I am not remotely convinced the reaction cycle is anywhere near quick enough to STOP a spread.

  31. Curious indeed – they should have their response to this predictable question at the ready.

    Alberta resident & IT guy here.

    Just conducted an experiment. Set my cell phone to airplane mode, then scanned my AB Vaxhole QR code. Scans fine, so no live Internet connection required.

    What it still could mean:
    a) select data might still be saved on the phone for upload to the servers of the Matrix when an Internet connection happens again.
    b) what data? The only data that would need to be transmitted would be two things: my unique Identifier code (scraped from the QR) AND the gps coords that the scan took place.

    *IF* just those two data points were uploaded to the godless heathens in the Matrix, wouldn’t that be the perfect thang for contract tracing, in the event of an outbreak…. This functionality would be The Big Get for our govt overlords, if in fact they use the QR Code scanner as a convenient backdoor…

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