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Title: Mandatory Chinese Olympics app collects personal data, has two security holes
Post by: HCK on January 22, 2022, 04:05:15 pm
Mandatory Chinese Olympics app collects personal data, has two security holes

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<p>Use of the Chinese Olympics app, MY2022, is mandatory for everyone attending this year’s <a href="https://olympics.com/en/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Olympic Games[/url] in Beijing, whether as an athlete or simply watching from the stadium.</p>
<p>The app collects sensitive <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/privacy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">personal data[/url] – like passport details, medical data, and travel history – and analysis by security researchers reveals that the code has two security holes that could expose this information …</p>
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