Beijing Olympics organisers say app security flaws 'fixed'

DATA LAWS Citizen Lab earlier said it had notified organisers about the issues in early December but received no reply. However, Yu said organisers never saw the request because it was sent to an old email address. China's data security laws require that health and medical data be encrypted during transmission and storage. The Citizen Lab report claimed that the app's inadequate encryption could violate Chinese law, as well as Google and Apple mobile software policies. "China has a history of undermining encryption technology to perform political censorship and surveillance," researcher Jeffrey Knockel wrote in the report. Researchers also discovered…