Why vaccine passports are still just a dream

Driving the news: New York City, the first city in the country to impose a vaccine requirement for many indoor businesses, will accept Excelsior Pass, an app developed for New York state, to verify people’s vaccine status.

Plenty of glitches have been reported with the Excelsior app, keeping many who are vaccinated from verifying their status.

The city also has its own passport app, called NYC Covid Safe, but it, too, has major technical limitations.

“#NYCCovidSafe is a terrible piece of technology. If you don’t believe me, then my name isn’t Mickey,” tweeted Albert Fox Cahn, who runs the nonprofit Surveillance Technology Oversight project, who verified his vaccination on the NYC app with picture of Mickey Mouse.