“If soldiers use the app like normal people do, by turning it on tracking when they go to do exercise, it could be especially dangerous. This particular track looks like it logs a regular jogging route. I shouldn’t be able to establish any Pattern of life info from this far away"
BUT YOU CAN!
Yet one more instance of an Internet application [an app] that can be and probably is being used to "spy" on military personnel from afar.
"Fitness App’s Map Reveals Movement Patters on Remote Military Bases"
"A global heat-map tracking GPS movement from FitBits, cellphones, and other fitness tracking devices appears to be lighting up the location patterns of soldiers working out at military bases in remote locations around the world."
. . . .
"According to The Washington Post, eagle-eyed observers have identified activity locating a suspected CIA base in Somalia, a Patriot missile defense system site in Yemen, and US special operations bases in the Sahel region of Africa."
EVEN THE POSSIBILITY OF MALWARE INSTALLED ON YOUR SMART PHONE WITHOUT YOU REALIZING SO! SOLDIER BEWARE!
Other instances of Internet social media used to possibly "spy" on military personnel the subject of many prior blog entries:
http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2017/02/android.html
http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2017/01/lllu.html
BEWARE THE APP!
coolbert.