Last Tuesday, fitness app company Strava said that it will be restricting access to an online heat map which shows where Strava users conduct their fitness activities. Strava made the changes after causing a massive privacy issue when its app inadvertently revealed the location of...
Last Wednesday, two US senators sent a letter to the CEO of Strava regarding the privacy risks that the fitness app may pose to the US military. Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona and Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware asked CEO James Quarles about the...
Researchers from mobile security firm Wandera recently said that they were able to triangulate a Strava app user’s location even if it has been set to private. Strava’s “privacy zone” feature allows users to mask their fitness activities from other users on the service. However, the...
Fitness tracking app company Strava recently confirmed that they have disabled a key tracking feature in their app. The Segments feature was first noticed to have been offline by users from Reddit. According to the company, they are currently reviewing the feature which was designed...
A US Military press office told the Washington Post that it will be refining rules on apps and devices such as Strava in light of the privacy incident the fitness tracker had caused last week. The company behind Strava inadvertently revealed the location of US military...
Last Tuesday, the Australian Military clarified that fitness app company Strava did not breach security despite publishing an online “heat map” that revealed that location of military personnel around the world. While Australian Defense Industry Minister Christopher Pyne revealed that the Defense Department is making a...
The recent issue involving fitness app company Strava had awakened privacy concerns regarding apps and devices that capture user’s data. It had been reported that Strava’s fitness app may have inadvertently revealed the location of US military presence in conflict zones. This only shows that...
The company behind Strava, a popular fitness tracker, had recently been accused of inadvertently revealing the presence of US military in sensitive locations such as conflict zones in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yemen. The issue was raised when a 20-year-old Australian student named Nathan Ruser...