Wed Aug 4, 2021 – 7:58 am EDTWed Aug 4, 2021 – 8:00 am EDT
LONDON, England (LifeSiteNews) – The British government entered into two new COVID passport contracts this week as part of the “Covid-19 certification program,” both of which could last until 2023.
The contracts were signed between the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and two tech companies that develop vaccine passport solutions and technologies: Entrust and Akami Technologies.
US-based Entrust will be awarded £840,000 ($1.2 million) for an initial one-year deal with plans to extend the contract to 2023. The company already received £250,000 ($347,923 US) earlier this year for providing cloud-computing services to the UK’s COVID-status certification scheme.
Though the new contract has been published online, parts of the document have been completely blacked out. The most noteworthy of the redacted sections hides the services that will be provided by Entrust.
The company’s ambitions regarding the health pass, however, are clear. Back in February, Entrust’s product marketing director Jenn Markey suggested turning the COVID passport into a national ID card.
In a blogpost she published on the company’s website, Markey wrote: “Consider a national ID strategy: With the infrastructure
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