A French naval officer went for a run on the deck of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and uploaded his workout to Strava, inadvertently leaking his location. nuclear powered The warship is heading towards the Middle East.
First informed According to French newspaper Le Monde, the story is no anomaly – this popular fitness tracking app has proven to be an anomaly privacy nightmare First.
By default, accounts on social fitness apps are set to public, publishing your route whenever you log a workout. Strava data has previously been used to explore military bases around the world. In 2024, Le Monde revealed Whereabouts of French President Emmanuel Macron By searching the Strava accounts of his bodyguards, who had uploaded public workout data while traveling with him.
Macron had publicly announced The carrier’s deployment, hence its movement through the Mediterranean, was already known. But apparently, the French army is still in grave danger when an officer telegraphs his exact location. A representative of the French Armed Forces told Le Monde that the officer’s behavior “does not comply with current guidelines”, about which “sailors are regularly made aware.”
Let this serve as a reminder to everyone – even if you’re not in the military, it’s probably worth setting your Strava account to private.
Strava did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment prior to publication.
