CONTRIBUTORS: SHK & EMILIANO VASQUEZ.
This article is going to get pretty deep and we’d like to note that some of these things have indeed been confirmed by either brands or their representatives. The future of COVID-19 is here and it apparently involves a dystopian type future where you are required to have an app on your phone that confirms either your negative testing status or a confirmation that you indeed got the controversial vaccine for the still unknown virus.
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SEE THE TICKETMASTER STORY: HERE.
On Wednesday, concert and entertainment giant Ticketmaster announced that in the near future people will be required to present a vaccination confirmation or a recent negative test result to enter a concert. The move has sparked widespread criticism online with some crying foul at the idea of forced vaccinations (“or else”) despite the presence of a claim that a simple negative result will get one into a Ticketmaster-bought concert.
Let’s dig in. The larger problem here with the COVID vaccine is that under the Trump Administration nobody really knows where it came from; how it came to be, exactly what is in it, or perhaps what it even does to one’s body after it has been taken. Numerous reported human trials so far have turned up numerous people surfacing with some pretty weird problems that researchers have acknowledged have not been seen in humans before.
That in itself has been reason enough for many to distrust the vaccination until it can become fully vetted over the course of a longer period of time like any other vaccine has been over the years. The U.S government and other governments are quickly trying to fast track a vaccine, er, only furthering the distrust many have in their efforts.
Ticketmaster ‘s announcement led to the discovery of an app that appears to have recently surfaced online. After learning of the announcement, we learned of an app that appears to be called Commonplace. Commonplace (per the site) bills itself as an app that will allow people; concert-goers, travelers, and anyone in between to verify their health status in regards to COVID-19.
But the site does not go into full detail about how places like concert halls and ticket master would actually handle health data of private citizens. Typically, such data has never been accessible to those types of places and this is something that would be very new to many let alone the actual entity. Many are concerned that the app may (“accidentally”) expose further health information about people well beyond a simple note about the Coronavirus.
That concern is genuine because it has happened before. And it can happen depending on who has access to the information; who has their hands in the pot, which third parties can access the platform in its whole, and lastly would the data be sold? To whom? Is there a way to stop it from being sold? With so little known about this app and the pending requirements for such an app —- like I said these concerns are very much valid.
It’s not exactly secret over the years that companies like Google and such are getting into the health game hoping to access the medical records of millions of Americans and beyond. I can’t speak for others but the idea of a company known for concert tickets or perhaps even a search engine having access to medical history (beyond COVID stuff) seems a little eery.
I hate to be the one that sounds like a conspiracy theorist because I am far from it. These types of apps and these things might seem like a good thing on the surface —- and they are — however you’re being lied too if you’re told we live in a world where data ins’t sold and is valuable to other people. So the concern of this data being sold or ending up in the hands of “profiteers” is equally uneasing as it is troubling.
But the rise of (“health pass”) technology doesn’t stop at just Ticketmaster. According to the Common project —- the same type of technology is also being tested at airports; venues, concerts, universities, and more. The future of COVID likely is a dystopian type future whereas you have to have one or the other (at least until a vaccine becomes the new norm) or life as you know it is going to get pretty boring.
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