Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) Sounds The Alarm Over U.S Olympians Using China’s Digital Yuan During Beijing Games

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Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) joined Fox News Radio’s Guy Benson Show to discuss cyber concerns over U.S Olympians using China’s digital Yuan payment app during the upcoming Olympic games in Beijing.

Senator Blackburn said,

“China is planning to do is launch the digital yuan, their currency, and have people logged into the digital yuan app, which thereby would facilitate all of their transactions while they are in China. Now, they are giving everybody like twenty dollars or fifty dollars free if they sign onto the app. That sounds tempting to them, sounds tempting to people who do business or who like to be on the Alibaba site. But here’s the problem with that. Once you have let China into your network, you have no privacy. Oh yeah, they are going to be in your wallet from then on. So to them, twenty dollars or fifty dollars, whatever they’re giving, They feel like then they have you for the rest of your life. So my hope is that people are going to be very careful and our athletes are going to be very careful and will realize that the Chinese embed spyware and malware in these apps and in the hardware like Waway and ZTE. And then they track you and they collect data and they build a profile of you. My term for it is you allow them to own the virtual you. You then do not own yourself in your transactions online.”