New story in Technology from Time: U.S. Soldiers are Accidentally Revealing Sensitive Locations by Mapping Their Exercise Routes

U.S. soldiers may have inadvertently mapped remote military bases including in sensitive locations such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, through publicly sharing their jogging routes with a GPS tracking app. Social fitness tracker Strava created an online, interactive heatmap based on satellite data from the routes logged by its subscribers. But in some countries, the …

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