The Pentagon said Monday it was reviewing soldiers’ contributions to a “Global Heat Map” posted by Strava Labs, a San Francisco-based firm that collects data worldwide from joggers, cyclists and other athletes out exercising. The news agencies Associated Press and France’s AFP observed that the Strava map showed exercise routes, presumably those of soldiers, in otherwise largely dark regions – providing sensitive details that potential attackers could interpret. Lesser-known installations and convoy routes were also decipherable when athletes’ movement data was aggregated and visualized, he said. Also visualized were Taji, north of Iraq’s capital Baghdad, Qayyarah south of previously embattled Mosul, and al-Asad in Iraq’s Anbar province. Reviewing ‘situational awareness’Pentagon spokeswoman Major Audricia Harris told AFP that the US military took the “situational awareness” issue very seriously.

Source: Egypt Independent January 29, 2018 10:07 UTC