Le Monde reports that confidential movements of powerful leaders like Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris could be tracked through a fitness app used by their bodyguards.

An investigation by French newspaper Le Monde found that the highly confidential movements of U.S. President Joe Biden, presidential rivals Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and other world leaders can be easily tracked online through a fitness app that their bodyguards use.

But the U.S. Secret Service told the newspaper that it doesn’t believe the protection it provides was in any way compromised.

Le Monde found that some U.S. Secret Service agents use the Strava fitness app, including in recent weeks after two assassination attempts on Trump, in a video investigation released in French and in English. Strava is a fitness tracking app primarily used by runners and cyclists to record their activities and share their workouts with a community.

    • DarkardEnglish
      281·
      5 months ago

      So they can use it to help in maintaining their required high level of fitness?

    • Bassman1805
      201·
      5 months ago

      Fitness isn’t something you just achieve and it’s done. You need to keep exercising to retain that level of fitness.

    • meeeeetch
      13·
      5 months ago

      They’re highly trained and want to show their friends how far they ran this morning.

      Kind of like when Special Forces guys showed off their morning runs on the same app a few years ago. In a patch of Yemen that they weren’t officially supposed to be on.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      101·
      5 months ago

      Aren’t they supposed to be already “highly trained” individuals? Instead of downvoting, explain, you fucking jackasses 😂.

      You’re being downvoted for suddenly jumping into conspiracy theory mode instead of asking normally.

    • don@lemm.ee
      1·
      5 months ago

      explain, you fucking jackasses 😂. Downvotes don’t mean shit on Lemmy btw.

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