Mike Ghaffary left Social Capital in August, shortly before the firm announced it would no longer raise outside capital.
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Strava appears to have disabled a key tracking feature over privacy concerns
This will come as no surprise to those who’ve been following the news of the past couple of weeks, but it appears that Strava’s disabled at least one top feature as it works to get to the bottom of recent privacy concerns over its mapping features. The app’s Segments feature looks to be at least temporarily offline, as first noted by The Verge by way of Reddit. We reached out… Read More
‘SEX Club’ spam just took over Strava
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For millions of people, the fitness-tracking app Strava is a handy tool for logging runs and sharing exercise data with friends. Strava may also be, it turns out, a great way to join a sex club.
On Wednesday, an untold number of Strava users received unsolicited invitations from someone by the name of Jessy Kiss to a group called “SEX Club.”
“You’re Invited,” reads the message. “Jessy Kiss invited you to join SEX Club. Accept this invitation and you’ll get access to all the club’s discussions, events, group activities, photos and stories — and lots of cool stuff you can’t get anywhere else.” Read more…
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Your fitness tracker knows too much about you.
Where you jog, where you work, and, yes, where you sleep — all this and more is collected, aggregated, and analyzed by the companies behind the exercise apps on your smartphone and the devices you strap to your body. And that’s a problem.
Just how big of a problem was brought into stark relief Monday, when a Twitter user pointed out that the Strava global heatmap — an online, interactive map of activity by people who use the Strava mobile app or have a Fitbit or Jawbone — inadvertently revealed the location of military bases overseas. To make matters worse, Wired reported it’s also possible to take data publicly available via Strava’s API and see the names of individuals tied to specific running routes. Read more…
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Strava says it will simplify privacy settings and review app features after exposing military bases
Fitness app Strava has said it will review its privacy settings and features after it was found to have exposed the location of military bases across the world by releasing user activity data. The Strava activity heatmap was supposed to be a fun …
View More Strava says it will simplify privacy settings and review app features after exposing military basesUS military reviewing tech use after Strava privacy snafu
The U.S. military has responded to privacy concerns over a heatmap feature in the Strava app which displays users’ fitness activity — and has been shown exposing the location of military facilities around the world — by saying it’s reviewing the rules around usage of wireless devices and apps by its personnel. Read More
Fitness app Strava exposes the location of military bases
Strava, the popular app for tracking running, cycling and swimming, is not the most obvious go-to for exposing national secrets, but a heatmap of activity from users has been found to unearth the locations of U.S. military bases worldwide. The company’s review of 2017 showed all routes taken by its users across the world. It was released back in November 2017, but it came to the fore… Read More
Strava’s fitness heatmap has a major security problem for the military
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Strava, a fitness tracking platform that logs activities on Fitbits, Jawbones and Garmin wearable devices, has a security problem.
In November, the platform launched a global heatmap of all the activity recorded through the tracking service. While it’s not live, it’s gathered a lot of data about user activity, patterns, routines, and locations — and it appears to be exposing some military secrets.
Strava released their global heatmap. 13 trillion GPS points from their users (turning off data sharing is an option)https://t.co/hA6jcxfBQI … It looks very pretty, but not amazing for Op-Sec. US Bases are clearly identifiable and mappable pic.twitter.com/rBgGnOzasq
— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) January 27, 2018 Read more…
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View More Strava’s fitness heatmap has a major security problem for the militaryWhy Hillary Clinton’s former CTO left politics for a fitness startup
Stephanie Hannon, 43, didn’t consider herself an athlete until age 39. In 2014, a looming surgery for personal health reasons had encouraged her to start working out. She began with a hike, and like millions of people worldwide, she turned to her sma…
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