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Way back in 2018, people noticed that you could find secret military bases using data published by the Strava fitness app. Soldiers and other military personal were using them to track their runs,...
It's not just the French president, Biden and Putin also reportedly trackable The French equivalent of the US Secret Service may have been letting their guard down, as an investigation showed they...
Researchers at the North Carolina State University Raleigh have discovered a privacy risk in the Strava app's heatmap feature that could lead to identifying users' home addresses. In 2018, Strava implemented a feature called "Heatmap" that anonymously aggregates users' activity to help users find trails or exercise hotspots, meet like-minded individuals, and perform their sessions in more crowded and safer locations.
'I spent a year hiding in shrubs, and they just … publish their daily runs' +Comment Online investigations outfit Bellingcat has found that fitness tracking kit-maker Polar reveals both the...
Internet of Things Privacy Fallout, Now in Heat Map FormFitness app and website developer Strava has landed in hot water after publishing a global heat map that shows users' workout routes in...
In November 2017, online fitness tracker Strava published a heatmap of the activity many of its users around the world engage in (and track) daily. But what might have seemed as a harmless sharing...
