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Hello and welcome.

The Digital Green Certificate is an initiative which was undertaken during the COVID pandemic

as a way to facilitate free movement in the EU. Basically, the certificate is a

uniform way for all member states to recognise that a citizen or qualified person has been

vaccinated, tested or recovered from COVID. These certificates can be issued and used in all

EU member states to facilitate individual mobility.

A project of this scale and with such severe time constraints must be subject to certain risks.

At the top of the list are data privacy for citizens, the slippery slope towards mass surveillance,

and the nuances that come with private technologies performing government functions.

In this podcast episode, we partner with the Alpin-Adria University of Clagenford here in Austria

to look at the green passport from the viewpoint of two students

from the Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Programme.

Our student hosts, Sabrina Strauss and Thomas Marquette, speak with Bart Pernil,

professor at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium,

who was involved early on with the Green Passport.

Let's have a listen.

Thank you. Let's have a listen. Hello everyone, my name is Tomah. And my name is Sabrina.

We are two students from the Elpen Adria University in Cleganford, Australia.

Sabrina is doing a master's degree in AI and cybersecurity.

And I'm a PhD student in cybersecurity.

And our subject for today is the vaccination passport.

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