{"id":1217302,"date":"2022-01-14T20:20:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T01:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217302"},"modified":"2022-01-14T20:20:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T01:20:25","slug":"team-usa-urges-athletes-to-use-burner-phones-to-thwart-chinese-spying-at-genocide-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/team-usa-urges-athletes-to-use-burner-phones-to-thwart-chinese-spying-at-genocide-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA Urges Athletes to Use Burner Phones to Thwart Chinese Spying at Genocide Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fteam-usa-urges-athletes-to-use-burner-phones-to-thwart-chinese-spying-at-genocide-games%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217302&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Team USA has recommended U.S. Olympics athletes leave their personal electronics home and use burner phones to thwart Chinese spying during the upcoming Genocide Games in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike computers, the data and applications on cell phones are subject to malicious intrusion, infection, and data compromise,\u201d the US Olympics group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/2022\/01\/13\/2022-olympics-china-athletes-warned-over-personal-phones-beijing\/9198411002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> American athletes in a recent advisory memo, <i>USA Today<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In its advisory, Team USA warned athletes about \u201cChinese surveillance during the Games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team USA is not the only country to begin warning athletes to leave personal computing devices behind when they go to Beijing for the coming games. Along with the U.S., the Dutch Olympic Committee, the British Olympic Association, Canada\u2019s, and the Australian Olympic Committee similarly warned their countrymen about China\u2019s electronic spying.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/14202017\/man-looks-through-a-window-in-a-fence-as-a-security-guard-walks-in-picture-id1364563199\" alt=\"Man looks through a window in a fence as a security guard walks in front of a fenced in hotel being used as part of the closed loop management for...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>BEIJING, CHINA -JANUARY 14: A man looks through a window in a fence as a security guard walks in front of a fenced-in hotel being used as part of the closed-loop management for people who have arrived for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics on January 14, 2022, in Beijing, China.&nbsp;(Photo by Kevin Frayer\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Canada warned competitors to be \u201cextra diligent\u201d about their personal information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve reminded all Team Canada members that the Olympic Games present a unique opportunity for cybercrime,\u201d the Canadian Olympic Committee told athletes, \u201cand recommended that they be extra diligent at Games, including considering leaving personal devices at home, limiting personal information stored on devices brought to the Games, and to practice good cyber-hygiene at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Chinese authorities are entirely open about collecting information about the athletes when they get to the communist nation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/14202022\/security-guard-walks-along-fencing-set-up-at-the-beijing-olympic-park-picture-id1237530392\" alt=\"Security guard walks along fencing set up at the Beijing Olympic Park on January 4, 2022 in Beijing, host to the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in one...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>A security guard walks along fencing set up at the Beijing Olympic Park on January 4, 2022, in Beijing, host to the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in one month\u2019s time on February 4. (Photo by NOEL CELIS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersonal information collected by Beijing 2022 will not be disclosed unless the disclosure is necessary,\u201d the Chinese Olympic authorities brazenly exclaimed. \u201cInformation of accredited media representatives will only be used for purposes related to the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there is the rub. By whose definition of when \u201cdisclosure is necessary\u201d will they observe?<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team USA has recommended U.S. Olympics athletes leave their personal electronics home and use burner phones to thwart Chinese spying during the upcoming Genocide Games in Beijing. \u201cLike computers, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}