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    Worried about Strava? It’s not the only app mapping our every move | Keza MacDonald

    Giving away all manner of personal information is only a tap away on your phone settings, as the fitness tracking site’s blunder has shown
    by Keza MacDonald Jan 29, 2018 3 minutes
    ‘Companies such as Google and Facebook are understandably cagey about how many people use their privacy features.’ Photograph: Patrick Sison/AP

    It was a great PR move: in November fitness tracking company Strava launched an updated global heatmap that visualised all the location data that its users had been collectively broadcasting, revealing popular running spots around the world. It is a fascinating visual, but it accidentally pinpointed the location and layout of secret military bases where fitness-conscious soldiers had been running around with their fitness trackers or phones. Whoops.

    The unexpected ways in which our personal data leaks out into the world range from the mildly amusing to the downright terrifying. Pornhub is notorious for its eye-catching

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