The 2022 Olympics App All Attendees Must Download Is a Security Nightmare, Researchers Find
In summation, despite collecting large amounts of sensitive health and travel information on its users , MY2022 lacks safeguards to protect it. Researchers say they disclosed these issues to the Beijing Organising Committee more than a month ago, on Dec. 3, but never heard back.
We reached out to the Beijing Organising Committee for comment on this story and will update if they respond.recently put out a newer version of the app—2.0.5 for iOS—which not only didn’tThe newest version of the app includes a new feature, called Green Health Code, designed to handle travel documents and health data that—like its other features—transmits data insecurely, researchers write.
while MY2022 may seem suspicious, Citizen Lab deduces that it might be something wholly less sinister than that. They note that much of the data that has been left vulnerable to theft is already being openly collected by the Chinese government —so there would be little reason to implement a surveillance workaround.
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