Thread by @profcarroll

Proactively managing one’s own health data strikes me as an act of personal interest and liberty. Likewise, private interests are at liberty to impose requirements upon customers as terms and conditions of service. The problem is we don’t enjoy fundamental #DataRights in the USA.

https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1376711469576900608

In other words, we might find a digital vaccine record more acceptable if all data collecting entities were legally bound to disclose our data, its processing, sharing, and provide unobstructed revocation of consent. Exists in the EU. Not in the USA. #DataRights

So until the USA establishes fundamental #DataRights similar to the EU, CA, VA, etc., paper vaccine records could minimize digital monetization at least, and help maintain the minimal protections afforded by HIPAA. Without any safeguards tho, concerns of eventual abuse are real.

So weirdly enough, Justin Amash’s fear of asking for “papers” is less dystopian than various unknown third parties compiling data brokered vaccination access control dossiers on us, files that we cannot demand to see, let alone know how they are limiting our liberties.#DataRights

If I wanted to figure out who has been vaccinated I’d buy commercial data and re-identify by joining tables across geo/timestamp at vaccination sites/pharmacies/mobile IDs. We should assume marketers will use probabilistic methods to target the vaxxed as new micro-segmentations.