Focusing on a single smartphone app is a red herring, cybersecurity experts say, in the context of China’s larger appetite for the personal data of people around the world.
the alarm in January about flaws in the My2022 app. Other concerns about My2022 have gone viral in recent days, especially one discredited claim, retweeted by the Spotify podcaster Joe Rogan, that it constantly records audio on users’ phones.
“As for Chinese state surveillance, it is omnipresent and they do not need audio from this app,” Moriuchi said. “Looking at the code, you look at anything that calls anything microphone related, and there’s nothing beyond this overt translation function,” Strafach said.
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