Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says
Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says
Le Monde reports that confidential movements of powerful leaders like Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris could be tracked through a fitness app used by their bodyguards.
An investigation by French newspaper Le Monde found that the highly confidential movements of U.S. President Joe Biden, presidential rivals Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and other world leaders can be easily tracked online through a fitness app that their bodyguards use.
But the U.S. Secret Service told the newspaper that it doesn't believe the protection it provides was in any way compromised.
Le Monde found that some U.S. Secret Service agents use the Strava fitness app, including in recent weeks after two assassination attempts on Trump, in a video investigation released in French and in English. Strava is a fitness tracking app primarily used by runners and cyclists to record their activities and share their workouts with a community.
I read the headline and was thinking, 'no way Trump works out with Strava.' As usual he has people who do that for him.
Same. This is the first time I've been shocked by a headline mentioning Trump in a long time. "Hold up, he uses a fitness app???" But it's his bodyguards. Oh, okay.
I thought they'd already banned the military from using this, you'd think secret service would be included in that ban too
Yeah it was banned after people used it to find secret US military bases in the middle east lol.
The system does not attract the brightest individuals.