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July 8, 2018 06:01 pm GMT

Another fitness app revealed the location of overseas soldiers

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 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

Approximately six months after researchers revealed that so-called Strava heatmaps allowed for the identification of secret overseas military bases, a joint effort from the Dutch De Correspondent and the open source investigative site Bellingcat 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...

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