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Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says. (apnews.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Still the agents mistake.

They could set the start/finish area to be masked, they could set their run info as private, they could have just the run stats (but no GPS) shared, etc.

This isn't a strava issue, just Secret Service Agents being bad about Secrets when doing their Service.

[โ€“] slaacaa 7 points 2 months ago

They should definitely know better, especially as a few years ago it was in the news how you could map some US bases by the runs that soldiers were doing