According to Mashable (July 8, 2018) another fitness app revealed the location of overseas soldiers. 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.
Approximately six months after researchers revealed that so-called Strava heatmaps allowed for the identification of secret overseas military bases, another fitness app was making all kinds of user data public.
Specifically, Polar's Polar Flow app "is revealing the homes and lives of people exercising in secretive locations, such as intelligence agencies, military bases and airfields, nuclear weapons storage sites, and embassies around the world."
Read the complete Bellingcat article here.
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It should probably go without saying, but if you are living and working in a secret or sensitive location, don't upload your location data to the Internet.
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