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Opinion

Vaccine passports are catnip for Big Tech

Digital certificates must be carefully scrutinized to avoid mission creep

| Southeast Asia
Vaccine passports may be the next method for governments to marginalize migrants.   © Reuters

Lizzie O'Shea is a lawyer. She is author of "Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us about Digital Technology."

Just over a year ago, international borders closed as part of the unprecedented emergency response to the pandemic.

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