When you use a fitness device such as Fitbit, the device posts to an interactive web to the Internet that shows the whereabouts of users. This also reveals highly sensitive information about the locations and activities of soldiers at U.S. military bases, in what appears to be a major security oversight. The Global Heat Map is published by GPS tracking company Strava. It uses satellite information to map the locations and movements of users over a two-year period. The company says it has 27 million users around the world. In war zones and deserts like Iraq or Syria, the heat map becomes almost entirely dark except for scattered pinpricks of activity. If you zoom in on those locations, you can find outlines of known U.S. military bases. But you an also find other unknown and potentially sensitive sites, presumably because American soldiers and other personnel are wearing fitness trackers as they move around. Guidelines on the use of all wireless and technological devices on military facilities are now being revised.
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