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China’s mandatory Olympics app sends audio data back to China

January 29, 2022
Source: reclaimthenet.org reclaimthenet.org
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China has an Olympics app for Covid contact tracing that is compulsory for all athletes and attendees. However, it has been revealed that both the Android and iOS app are collecting audio and sending to servers based in China. Tech researcher Jonathan Scott reverse-engineered the MY2022 Olympics app. On Thursday, he posted his findings, revealing that the app could be used to spy on athletes and attendees as it can non-consensually record audio and send it to China-based servers for analysis. Scott wrote that the app “forces itself to the foreground to make sure it has the capability to listen.”...
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