--- title: "Do Not Photograph & Post Your Vaccine Cards Online [VIDEO]" canonical: https://romancescamsnow.com/do-not-photograph-post-your-vaccine-cards/ type: post author: "SCARS Institute Editorial Team" published: 2021-03-20 modified: 2023-03-19 categories: ["♦ HOW SCAMS WORK", "2021", "Identity Theft & Impersonation", "Insights", "♦ SCAM WARNINGS & ALERTS"] summary: "" organization: "SCARS Institute - Encyclopedia of Scans - World's #1 Anti-Scam Website - Romance Scams NOW" organization_url: https://romancescamsnow.com/ llms: https://romancescamsnow.com/llms.txt --- # Do Not Photograph & Post Your Vaccine Cards Online [VIDEO] # Do Not Photograph & Post Your Vaccine Cards ## Danger To Your Identity By Exposing Your Vaccine Cards Online ### Social media is no place for COVID-19 vaccination cards. When you post it to Facebook, Instagram, or some other social media platform, you may be handing valuable info over to someone who could use it for identity theft ### You have to be more cautious about what you post online! # Remember ... - Your vaccine card has sensitive personal information, and pictures of the card that you share online might put you at risk of identity theft. - The card not only contains your name and date of birth but also shows when and where you were vaccinated. - By posting images of this document on social media, you’re sharing sensitive data that may fall into bad hands. Your vaccine card has sensitive personal information, and pictures you post online that feature the card might put you at risk of identity theft. > “Think of it this way — identity theft works like a puzzle, made up of pieces of personal information. You don’t want to give identity thieves the pieces they need to finish the picture,” according the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). ### The vaccination card not only has your name and date of birth, but it also shows when and where you were vaccinated. By posting images of this document on social media, you’re sharing sensitive data that may fall into bad hands. # But Wait There Is More ... ## You could lose HIPAA (Health Privacy) protection! The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) - a federal law that required the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient’s consent or knowledge. Legal experts suggest that posting your vaccine card online may void this protection. The information on the vaccination card is in most cases protected health information subject to HIPAA protection, but once it’s shared by the individual via social media, it no longer enjoys that protection and may be used for medical identity theft or as a means of hacking into patient portals! Making public information like your date of birth, address, social security number, and even details about family members (like children’s names and dates of birth) could set you up for identity theft. This is a problem when publicly posting any personal or identifying information that can be used to hack into accounts or commit identity theft or fraud on social media or online. Posting your birthday, for example, is a good way for criminals to crack passwords since so many people use or include their birthday in them! ## For more information about protecting against Identity Theft visit the U.S. Federal Trade Commission website: ## [Identity Theft | FTC Consumer Information](https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/features/feature-0014-identity-theft)