{"id":41031,"date":"2022-01-24T20:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/24\/should-athletes-be-worried-about-flaws-in-chinas-olympics-app"},"modified":"2022-01-24T20:00:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T11:00:49","slug":"should-athletes-be-worried-about-flaws-in-chinas-olympics-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41031","title":{"rendered":"Should athletes be worried about flaws in China\u2019s Olympics app?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report found the app that will be used to monitor athletes\u2019 health and travel data has a \u2018devastating\u2019 encryption flaw<\/p>\n<p>With the Beijing Olympics just weeks away, concerns are mounting over a mandatory health app for competing athletes, after a <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenlab.ca\/2022\/01\/cross-country-exposure-analysis-my2022-olympics-app\/\">new report<\/a> revealed the app contains security flaws and a list of \u201cpolitically sensitive\u201d words that have been marked for censorship.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenlab.ca\/2022\/01\/cross-country-exposure-analysis-my2022-olympics-app\/\">report<\/a>, published by University of Toronto\u2019s research and strategic policy unit Citizen Lab, found that the My2022 app, which will be used to monitor athletes\u2019 health and travel data, has a \u201cdevastating\u201d encryption flaw that leaves users\u2019 files and media vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/24\/should-athletes-be-worried-about-flaws-in-chinas-olympics-app\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report found the app that will be used to monitor athletes\u2019 health and travel data has a \u2018devastating\u2019 encryption flawWith the Beijing Olympics just weeks away, concerns are mounting over a mandatory health app for competing athletes, after a new rep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,478,474,58,47,2464,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-privacy","category-surveillance","category-technology","category-us-news","category-winter-olympics-2022","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41044,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41031\/revisions\/41044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}