Locating Secret Military Bases via Fitness Data
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In November, the company Strava released an anonymous data-visualization map showing all the fitness activity by everyone using the app.
Over this weekend, someone realized that it could be used to locate secret military bases: just look for repeated fitness activity in the middle of nowhere.
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Tags: data collection, geolocation, military, secrecy
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