Biometrics and COVID-19: a Perfect Storm for Disability Discrimination

Clear’s new Health Pass program could easily be used to discriminate against disabled people

Sarah K Stricker
Invisible Illness
Published in
6 min readOct 19, 2020
Photo by Anton on Unsplash

Biometrics, tools which use individual unchangeable characteristics to verify one’s identity, are being woven into increasingly more areas of our lives. From fingerprints to facial recognition…

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Sarah K Stricker
Invisible Illness

Writing about disability, chronic illness, & mental health. MS in health communication from @NUHealthComm. Find my work in Invisible Illness & No End in Sight.