The Ethics of Categorising Citizens as Vaccinated and Unvaccinated

Air New Zealand recently announced plans to trial a digital vaccine passport system on trans-Tasman flights to Australia.

In Israel and China, the government has implemented their own vaccine passport systems, with the EU set to follow suit later this month.

From a health perspective categorising people as vaccinated or un-vaccinated makes sense, but what are the ethical and legal risks associated with a passport style vaccine system (which gives citizens a differing set of movement rights), and is it a breach of your privacy?

Produced By: Leon Georgiou

Featured In Story: Angus Murray, Co Vice President of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties, and Tim Dare, Prof. of Philosophy at the University of Auckland

First aired on The Wire, Wednesday, 10 March 2021