National Immunization Registry - A Threat to Privacy and Freedom
Since 1993, our government and private foundations have worked with a single-minded focus and
clarity of vision to create a National Immunization Registry despite the threats this registry poses
to our privacy and freedom. This has been done behind closed doors with the input of the industries
that stand to gain tremendous financial rewards and without the input of the citizens they plan to
track.
It is very clear from reviewing CDC documentation on the National Immunization Registry Plan,
that U.S. government agencies and officials are ostensibly using public health to create a massive
networked computer database to create a national surveillance and enforcement system. This system
will monitor, intimidate, harass, and punish conscientious parents, their children, and their health
care providers if they do not conform with every government recommended vaccination health care
policy. We are requesting that our elected government officials, the National Vaccine Advisory
Committee, and the National Immunization Program put a stop to this National Immunization Registry
Plan.
High quality public health is a goal that we all share, however, a national vaccination
surveillance, monitoring and enforcement system orchestrated by the federal government is not an
acceptable means to that end.
PROVE's Statement Against a National Immunization Registry
NVIC - Tracking Systems
& Privacy
The Texas Example of Immunization Registry Abuses
View the CDC's "National
Immunization Registry Clearinghouse" Site
Other Coverage
Houston Chronicle - National registry would invade our
children's privacy (New)
Insight Magazine - Is a nationwide network for immunization records a
good idea?
Lone Star Citizen - Health or Privacy: State's New Tracking System
Stirs Debate
Free Congress - Tracking Your Children Down: State and Federal
Immunization Registries
WORLD Magazine - A shot in the arm?
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