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07-09-2018, 08:49 AM
Another fitness app revealed the location of overseas soldiers
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Who would have thought getting in shape could be so risky.*
Fitness apps help you track your runs, calories burned, and maybe even your heart rate. If you happen to be using a Polar (https://www.polar.com/en) device and its associated app, however, that information — in addition to small details like where you live — could end up in the wrong hands.*
SEE ALSO: Your fitness tracker knows too much about you (https://mashable.com/2018/01/30/strava-fitness-tracking-apps-data-privacy/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Approximately six months after researchers revealed that so-called Strava heatmaps allowed for the identification of secret overseas military bases (https://mashable.com/2018/01/28/strava-fitbit-fitness-tracker-global-heatmap-threat/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), a joint effort from the Dutch De Correspondent (https://decorrespondent.nl/8480/this-fitness-app-lets-anyone-find-names-and-addresses-for-thousands-of-soldiers-and-secret-agents/260810880-cc840165) and the open source investigative site Bellingcat (https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/articles/2018/07/08/strava-polar-revealing-homes-soldiers-spies/) discovered that another fitness app was making all kinds of user data public that, if it got into the wrong hands, could do serious harm.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/08/polar-fitness-app-reveals-soldiers-homes/)
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Who would have thought getting in shape could be so risky.*
Fitness apps help you track your runs, calories burned, and maybe even your heart rate. If you happen to be using a Polar (https://www.polar.com/en) device and its associated app, however, that information — in addition to small details like where you live — could end up in the wrong hands.*
SEE ALSO: Your fitness tracker knows too much about you (https://mashable.com/2018/01/30/strava-fitness-tracking-apps-data-privacy/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Approximately six months after researchers revealed that so-called Strava heatmaps allowed for the identification of secret overseas military bases (https://mashable.com/2018/01/28/strava-fitbit-fitness-tracker-global-heatmap-threat/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), a joint effort from the Dutch De Correspondent (https://decorrespondent.nl/8480/this-fitness-app-lets-anyone-find-names-and-addresses-for-thousands-of-soldiers-and-secret-agents/260810880-cc840165) and the open source investigative site Bellingcat (https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/articles/2018/07/08/strava-polar-revealing-homes-soldiers-spies/) discovered that another fitness app was making all kinds of user data public that, if it got into the wrong hands, could do serious harm.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/08/polar-fitness-app-reveals-soldiers-homes/)
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