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When Julia Marino, a Prosno Border and Big Air player, finished the final adjustment before the Winter Olympics, a U.S. government officials arrived at Marino and his teammates. A warning on China's surveillance system. The culture of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is "disinfected" and "Disney": One photographer captured by the oppression site 2022 players who participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics in the 2022, be careful not to bring their personal smartphones to the tournament. Is receiving. "I use a disposable prepaid smartphone during my stay in China," said Marino, who has won the medal seven times at the world -class spall competition "X GAMES". I'm talking. She has also been warned so as not to raise voices against human rights infringement. "There was also a story about what would happen when he raised his voice," said Marino with the same interview. With the opening of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, the capital of China, it is not only Marino who is required to be cautious. Beijing has taken measures more than normal time to protect himself from authoritative judicial officials, and more than thousands of athletes, coaches (some countries) diplomats, and the media The stakeholders have arrived. What kind of caution are you required? For example, the use of a laptop or smartphone that is "disposable" prevents the extraction of confidential data and the criticism of human rights violations of Muslims living in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. It's kind of modest. "If you go to China, you should think that all the actions using electronic devices are all out of the cylinder," said Fergus, who is in charge of the International Cyber Policy Division at the Sink Tank Australian Strategic Research Institute.・ Hanson says. "The security level is extremely low in China."
What is happening in China now
The situation has changed significantly since China held the summer Olympics in 2008. China has grown into a technical power, and has gained advanced abilities in all fields, from artificial intelligence (AI) to quantum computing. Giant tech companies from China have produced hundreds of millions of users, and these products have supported tasks that are indispensable in people's daily lives. On the other hand, in China, monitoring and censorship using technology for their own people are widely implemented, and some hackers have advanced technologies that have been supported by the government. And the United Nations warns the forced and unjust treatment of Uyghurs. In the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, up to 1 million Uyghurs are being housed in concentration camps. Several countries, including the United States, have declared that the Chinese government has been working on "massacre". There are evidence that the Uyghurs have been used as forced labor and have been undergoing sterile surgery. Diplomatants in each country have decided to go to the "diplomatic boycott" of the tournament for these human rights issues. But experts say that this response alone is not enough to urge China to convert policy. Hackers who have been supported by the Chinese government have been doing reluctant hacking unprecedented in recent years, and other related organizations also target people who criticize Chinese human rights. It is developing a large -scale spread.
