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For Apple users, there is now an official app for the Green Passport. Whether Vaccinated, Convalescent or Tested, every certificate can be imported into it offline.
How to get it?
The Ministry of Health has collaborated to develop its own app for the Green Passport in time for the start of the vacation season, which can be used to call up the 3G certificates (Genesen, Getestet, Geimpft) offline, i.e. without a data connection.
The app, which for now is only available in the iOS app store, stores and processes the data exclusively offline, i.e. only on the end user’s cell phone, the Ministry of Health announced on Friday. Once uploaded and saved, the EU-compliant certificate is displayed in a simplified version. Only essential information is then displayed in the app, such as first name, last name, Covid-19 vaccine and the EU-compliant QR code. There will be no storage in a cloud.
“Best possible data protection”
“Since the Green Passport certificates are particularly sensitive health data, we had to observe tight legal parameters in the development of the app,” emphasized Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens). Therefore, he said, there was not only a health policy mandate, but also a socio-political mandate for data protection. Mückstein expressed his conviction that the application ensured the “best possible protection of health data.”
The QR code stored on the smartphone can also be easily checked using the official “GreenCheck” testing application. This would require a cell phone or tablet with a functioning cell phone camera. With this web app solution, too, no personal data would be transmitted, and the check would take place offline. This is intended to provide event organizers with a simple check upon entry. Compliance with these requirements will be monitored on a random basis, it said.
The Federal Computing Center (BRZ), which already provided the technical basis for the Green Pass in Austria with the Epidemiological Information System (EPI), was responsible for developing the app. The technical implementation was based on the open source app of the Swiss Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication (BIT), with which the BRZ is networked in Euritas, among other things.
How does it work?
Anyone who installs the app is greeted by a prompt to scan the QR code. This is convenient for those who have already printed out the certificate. Of course, there is also the option of logging into the Elga portal on another device and using it to load the certificate directly into the app.
Another way: If the certificate is already stored on the device, open it first. In most cases, it can be found in the Files application. At the bottom left, there is an icon with an arrow pointing upwards. Clicking on it will show you options on how to share this document. The app of the BRZ is then also found in the column with the applications.
To install the app, software version iOS 12.0 (or higher) is required.
— source: diepresse.at and Offizielle App für den Grünen Pass ab sofort erhältlich – BRZ/picture: brz.gv.at
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