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Strava, a smartphone app that tracks "athletic activity" using GPS, published an interactive heatmap of user activity around the world. That heatmap included some U.S. military bases:
Military personnel around the world have been publicly sharing their exercise routes online - including those inside or near military bases.
Online fitness tracker Strava has published a "heatmap" showing the paths its users log as they run or cycle. It appears to show the structure of foreign military bases in countries like Syria and Afghanistan, as soldiers move around inside.
The US military is examining the heatmap, a spokesman said. Air Force Colonel John Thomas, a spokesman for US Central Command, told the Washington Post that the US military was reviewing the implications.
Strava said it had excluded activities marked as private from the map. Users who record their exercise data on Strava have the option of making their movements public or private. Private data, the company said, has never been included.
The "private" option is for people who like to track their step count during sexual activity, not protecting the operational security of the military base you're stationed at.
Also at The Guardian, which contains more examples than the BBC for those who don't want to enable JavaScript to view the interactive one linked to above.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday January 29 2018, @04:07PM (3 children)
I think my definition of either "sexual activity" or "step" doesn't align with the way these people are using it.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 29 2018, @05:04PM (1 child)
Obligatory: Adam Sandler - Sex or Weight Lifting [youtube.com] (audio only, NSFW)
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 29 2018, @05:30PM
Flesh slapping against flesh. Punching. These things could be heard from within the building. Eventually, a man exited the establishment; he looked refreshed, as if he was a new man. And what a great man he was; a man who utilized others so that they could reach their full potential; a man who gave others opportunities; a man who gave others hope. Later, someone would stumble upon the corpse of a naked woman in that very same building.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Monday January 29 2018, @05:14PM
> Strava said it had excluded activities marked as private from the map.
Which confirms that they have it.
"Next, from Strava : The sex rating app ! Know how good your show-off guy really is before you're disappointed !
People may elect to be excluded from our app, or our Tinder/grindr partnership, when they subscribe to our $200/mo membership!
Subscribe to our $1000/mo plan for access to our DataOptimizer services!"