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posted by FatPhil on Monday January 29 2018, @03:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the sharing-is-caring,-right dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday January 29 2018, @07:23PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 29 2018, @07:23PM (#629976) Journal

    I know what goes on in the dorms. That is the rappists I mention along with the cereal killers.

    Imagine rappists unable to get their rap music to rhyme, in the dorms! Poisoning the minds of the kids.

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