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How a Fitness Tracking App Exposed U.S. Military Secrets

January 29, 2018

Via: Fortune
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When Strava, an exercise-tracking firm, last year published a “heat map” of its user activity around the world, it probably didn’t expect the data representation to cause a national security scandal—but it has.

Over the weekend, an Australian conflict analyst named Nathan Ruser realized that the map clearly showed activities around U.S. military bases in war-torn regions, due to its tracking of soldiers’ Fitbits and other such devices.

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