Article by Sébastien Bourdon and Antoine Schirer: “On the Strava fitness app, there are individual cases that raise concerns, some of which Le Monde has already documented. For example, the naval officer who went jogging in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, thereby revealing, at the moment of recording his run, the exact position of the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier strike group. Or the military personnel who exercised on the docks of the Ile Longue base, where France’s nuclear ballistic missile submarines (SNLE) operate, and whose activities provide information about patrol schedules. Or even the bodyguards of the French, American and Russian presidents, whose sporting activities make it possible to track these heads of state and, in some cases, to anticipate their movements.
And most significantly, Le Monde has uncovered several thousand servicemembers, of all ranks and specialties, who, by exercising and running in far-flung corners of the world and sharing their performances on their public Strava profiles, reveal the activities of the French armed forces as a whole, from the most banal to the most sensitive…(More)”.
