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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...