Australian athletes at the Beijing Winter Olympics are being warned they could be subject to Chinese cyber surveillance.
s are being warned to leave their phones at home and set up new unlinked email accounts to avoid having their personal information harvested by China’s government surveillance apparatus.
Australian athletes will compete in the Winter Games, which begin on February 4. However, Australia has joined a diplomatic boycott, which includes the United States, over China’s human rights abuses against Uyghur minorities. Second, create a new email address and browser account to use on the so-called burner phone – to mitigate risks of cloud accounts, such as Google or Apple, connecting personal information to the new burner phone.
The AOC said athletes would have access to the official Wi-Fi at the Olympics to access social media and other communications. “While analysing the source code, we noted that the Apple IOS VPN software allows access to the camera and photo library as standard permissions. These third-party application permissions ... are not functional for the use of VPN software.”
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