Athlete surveillance warnings cloud China's Winter Olympics

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BEIJING — A growing number of Western nations and cybersecurity groups have issued digital surveillance warnings for next month's Winter Olympics in Beijing, with some advising foreign athletes to leave personal phones and laptops at home.

China hopes to pull off a successful, coronavirus-free Games that will burnish its international reputation.

Earlier this week, researchers at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab said a virus-monitoring app all attendees must use was found to have a"simple but devastating" encryption flaw that could allow personal data including health information and voice messages to leak. Canberra-based cybersecurity firm Internet 2.0 also warned in a recent report that official Games software — including a VPN and an anti-virus product — from two of the event's Chinese tech sponsors could potentially collect troves of user data without their knowledge.

Some of these countries have joined a growing diplomatic boycott of the Games that has incensed China. Other European nations are unruffled. The Spanish and Italian Olympic committees told AFP they had given no specific advice to athletes on cybersecurity.

 

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