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National Review
National Review
29 Oct 2024
Jack Butler


NextImg:The Corner: The French Strava Mistake

Strava has claimed yet more victims. Le Monde reports that members of the French equivalent of the Secret Service are the latest to be embarrassed by the app, which allows users to share watch- or phone-recorded physical activity with others.

You can set your activities and profile on Strava to private. But the default setting is public. This is how bodyguards of French president Emmanuel Macron have inadvertently revealed his whereabouts, which they have been transmitting to the world as a result of their own publicly shared activities. (It turns out our presidential bodyguards aren’t the only incompetent ones.)

It could have been worse for them. Last year, a Russian submarine commander who left his Strava public was killed in a park he regularly looped through on his runs. The French mistake here is more on par with the record of military personnel, U.S. and otherwise, accidentally revealing the locations of secret bases via the app.

Exercise is good, and good for you. But if you’re in a position requiring some degree of secrecy, at least set your Strava to private.