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Chinese surveillance and censorship tool required of Olympians

by rdtennent on 1/18/22, 6:20 PM with 4 comments

The Globe and Mail reports that the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto has analyzed the My2022 app that Olympians are required to install on their device and found that encryption protecting users' audio and file transfers can be sidestepped and that keywords such as Tiananmen can easily be censored. These flaws violate Google and Apple's App store guidelines as well as China's laws and standards.

The Canadian Olympic organizers have advised olympians to leave their devices at home but apparently olympians are being required to install the My2022 app on their devices.

  • by quantified on 1/18/22, 7:49 PM

    You figure that an app-driven world (payments, communicating with your family), athletes need some device. Home countries should just provide clean devices like they would do for any diplomatic mission, and retrieve and analyze them upon return. Wealthy and sophisticated countries like Canada, US, Western Europe ought to be able to do this. Though, getting the athletes to not smuggle in their own security holes is probably not possible.

  • by TheChaplain on 1/18/22, 7:38 PM

    This one fell off the frontpage rather quick, no?

  • by _aavaa_ on 1/18/22, 7:16 PM