Some Covid Safe Ticket users have already highlighted the possibility of taking a screenshot of the QR code, and therefore easily sending it to friends who could use it to access a restaurant, for example; without being vaccinated. By way of comparison, on a mobile banking application, screenshots are not possible.

"We did not activate this feature because the impossibility of taking screenshots does not work on all types of explanation systems, in this case on Android, and therefore we favored uniformity" , says Gert De Gelder, from Digitaal Vlaanderen. "It is for this reason that we have introduced a moving blue circle on the application. If it is a photo or screenshot, there will not be this moving blue circle. application will scan (in green) the QR code but on the other hand, the person who makes the scan will be able to see that it is a copy.

Provided that she is informed of the existence of this protection system…