Giving absent all manner of personal information is only a tap absent on your phone settings,as the fitness tracking site’s blunder has shownIt was a grand PR wobble: 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, or 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. Related: Fitness tracking app Strava gives absent location of secret US army bases When data is the entire business model of these companies,what motivation do they have to quit collecting it? Related: Personal data of a billion Indians sold online for £6, report claims Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com