• Fitness app Strava exposes the location of military bases

    Fitness app Strava exposes the location of military bases

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    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…

  • A traveling frog exposes concerns within Apple’s Chinese App Store

    A traveling frog exposes concerns within Apple’s Chinese App Store

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    An app about a frog that likes to travel has exposed worrying signs that Apple isn’t doing enough to prevent fake apps from entering its App Store in China, the world’s largest smartphone market and Apple’s single largest country for app revenue. The story centers around ‘Tabi Kaeru’ — or ‘Travel Frog’ — a Japanese…