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When Trading Track Records Means Less Privacy

by David Ruiz and Gennie Gebhart | January 30, 2018

Sharing your personal fitness goals—lowered heart rates, accurate calorie counts, jogging times, and GPS paths—sounds like a fun, competitive feature offered by today’s digital fitness trackers, but a recent report from The Washington Post highlights how this same feature might end up revealing not just where you are, where you’ve been, and how often you’ve traveled there, but sensitive national security information.

According to The Washington Post report, the fitness tracking...

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