Beijing 2022 official says data in Olympics app is protected


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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The main function of an app China has built for the Beijing Winter Olympics is to monitor people’s health and the country follows strict rules to protect data, the director general of the games organisers’ technology department said on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Canadian researchers said the MY2022 app, which was built by the Beijing Organising Committee mainly to track and share COVID-19-related medical information among the athletes during the Games, contained security flaws that makes it vulnerable to privacy breaches and hackers. (Reporting by Martin Pollard, Writing by Brenda Goh; Editing by Jacqueline Wong) Beijing 2022 official...