App details military movements

A heat map published on the Internet by fitness tracking company Strava may have been inadvertently giving away sensitive secrets. An Australian student used the service to reveal the locations and activities of soldiers at U.S. military bases around the world, including in Syria. (Source: Huffington Post 01/29/18) Security settings likely can disable personnel locations. In the last several hours, the U.S. military has responded to privacy concerns over the heat-map app which displays users' fitness activity - and has been shown to expose of global facilities - by saying it's reviewing the rules around usage of wireless devices and apps by personnel.