Sandra B. Julian
Sandra B. Julian, BA (Uvic), MLS (UBC), is a free-lance writer-researcher, columnist and blogger working on the west coast of Canada. Some recent works have appeared in Canadian Teacher Magazine, Green Child Magazine, Areo Magazine, Policyoptions.irpp.org, Gardenrant.com and Creatively United For the Planet.
Bio last updated November 3rd, 2021.
Articles by Sandra B. Julian
The Stampede to Crush Privacy
By Sandra B. Julian
November 3, 2021
Sandra B. Julian warns a basic human right is being trampled in the COVID-fed panic to digitize and QR code where we can go and what we can do based on whether we’ve had the jab.
It's hardly surprising that COVID has caused worldwide panic, but the stampede toward vaccination passports is trampling on privacy Provincial privacy commissioners declared in May 2021 only that forced disclosure of personal information for vaccine certification “is an encroachment on civil liberties that should be taken only after careful consideration”, a feeble response to loss of a basic right Provincial privacy laws once offered some protection against having to disclose them, but these legal defences haven't withstood intrusion through vaccination passports