I’m sick of that cheap, thinner than “paper-thin” Alberta Healthcare card that gets wrinkled in my wallet over time. Would love to have a digital version I can put in Apple Wallet/google pay like the vaccine card we have!
And yes if you still want a hard copy people can go to their local registry to print off a version
TIL: After receiving a COVID-19 booster dose, a pre-existing digital record won't include the additional booster information. A new QR code needs to be requested from https://myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov/ about 14 days after the booster has been administered to show the booster dose details.
I got sick of waiting for the official one. Alberta moved towards the https://smarthealth.cards/ format like many provinces in Canada. However, with one catch, they forgot to publish the public key so that people can validate the QR codes. I got lucky and stumbled across it.
With it we can independently verify the QR codes, completely in the browser, no checking against any server.
Read me first before using this
Your QR Code contains your personal information. It contains your name and date of birth. Along with when, where, and what vaccines you have received to date. Your personal information is not encrypted, it is just compressed. It should not be posted online anywhere.
Use extreme caution of people claiming to have made an independent vaccine scanner, mine is no exception. Mine is just here for the interim until the government can launch theirs.
As such, I made it 100% offline capable(needs some better caching right now), and no data is transmitted to my server at all. Any developer or you can independently verify this. I'll show you how in the next section.
You are basically trusting that I am not logging anything at any given point.
Using offline instructions
It works offline out of the box, this is just about fact checking my claims. Here are 2 ways to accomplish this, the easy way, and the dev tools way.
First step is to load up the website and click on "Scan A QR Code", click allow camera when prompted. Don't scan anything yet.
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The easy way
Mobile: turn on airplane mode and then scan the QR Code. Once validated, you can safely close it or scan another.
Desktop: Turn off your wifi, unplug your ethernet, or disable your network adapter. Scan the QR code, it will still work.
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The dev tools way, Chrome(other browsers have similar functionality) on desktop:
- Right click anywhere on the web page, click inspect element.
- Navigate to the network tab, click preserve log(if you are tracking all network requests), and click the little drop down arrow by the No throttling and select the offline preset. You can confirm it worked by refreshing the page if you want and you should get the dinosaur "No internet".
- Now scan the QR Code, it should work and not send any network requests. You can scan another or safely close the browser tab.
Now
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https://covidrecords.alberta.ca/home
Taken from the website:
>Get your verified COVID-19 vaccine record with a QR code. It’s fast and easy – no account required.
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>Keep it with you – save it to your phone or print it out. Show your vaccine record when you enter businesses or attend events.
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>The AB COVID Records Verification app is now available for iPhone and Android devices on their respective app stores. The app does not store any personal information.
Edit: Download the app (AB Covid Records Verifier, for businesses) for free from Google Play or the App Store.
I unpacked the QR code from my eHealth verifiable vaccination record, and this is what I found.
- Full name
- Date of birth
- For each COVID vaccine dose:
- Date it was administered
- Manufacturer and type (ie Moderna mRNA)
- Lot information (code, expiry date)
- That the dose was administered in Saskatchewan
The QR code follows the smarthealthcard open standard. There really isn't any other personal data in the code that isn't on the PDF. There's also a digital signature, which I didn't bother checking the validity of, but it can't contain anything personally identifiable. It'd be used to ensure that the contents of the code hadn't been tampered with and so that someone couldn't just make their own QR code.
What this ends up meaning is that the code on its own isn't a strong verification - the name would need to be checked against some other kind of ID to ensure the person presenting the code was actually the person the code was issued to. Seems like a good balance.
Can't generate my QR code on provincial website. First dose in ymay, second in July. I can generate a code using May, but it scans as invalid by the provincial scanner app.
MyHealth Alberta records shows both vaccine doses in my immunization records.
Anyone else have an issue resembling this?
https://github.com/minhealthnz/nzcovidpass-spec
Says
"You should avoid storing any details from the pass, unless there is a reason to do so. We recommend adopting a privacy-first stance and consider whether you have a legitimate purpose to hold this data"
As it exists today, there is no legal protection. We have to assume, ney hope that legislation is robust, but know Labour and their stance of fighting against privacy protections for covid data, I'm not holding my breath
When I scan the code, it's just a huge grid of numbers. Is that right? Did it download incorrectly? I tried mine and my husband's, both did the same thing. I checked my phone was scanning properly (Android) with a test QR code online, and it worked properly.
Anyone else have this experience? Am I missing something? Thanks for any help!
https://www.clearme.com/healthpass/
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clear-fast-touchless-access/id1436333504
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clearme.clearapp
Thought this was pretty neat
I have a barcode scanner so for shits and giggles was curious what data is in the QR code.
So it starts with “shc:/“ and then a 2108 character long number. All numbers and not alphanumeric (ie. no letters). I’m not sure if the data is embedded in the numbers or if the future verifier app needs to be connected and then your “ID number” is matched to a database somewhere.
