ID startups are targeting businesses with private COVID-19 health passport schemes - Business Insider

A man walks past a poster simulating facial-recognition software at the Security China 2018 exhibition on public safety and security in Beijing, China, on October 24, 2018.ID startups say they are seeing interest from private firms on how in-house health passport schemes could help them get employees safely back to work.

But Dr Edgar A. Whitley, an expert on the subject, has raised concerns over the practicalities of private health passports. Digital identity startups say they have been discussing corporate immunity passport schemes with private firms, as a way to reduce the need for social distancing in the workplace and boost productivity.

But national schemes involving immunity passports have yet to materialize. One issue is that it is still unclear how long anyone remains immune to COVID-19 after contracting the disease, with But even without government backing, it appears businesses from a wide range of sectors are looking into how they might roll out their own health passport schemes. The idea is to bring employees back to work faster, and potentially reduce the need for social distancing.

Husayn Kassai, CEO of rival ID startup Onfido, says he now dedicates a third of his time to working on health passports, and has set up a new team within the company to focus on the issue. Due to the unprecedented nature of the issue, there are few standards governing how private companies would go about monitoring their employees' health.

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