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.
The question is, why would a secret service member need an app for their fitness? Smells sketchy to me.
Aren't they supposed to be already "highly trained" individuals? Instead of downvoting, explain, you fucking jackasses đ.
Downvotes don't mean shit on Lemmy btw.
And if you're a highly trained individual, you'll need an app for that? Shouldn't they already be somewhat experts in that regard? Just doesn't make sense
Are you trying to tell me that highly motivated people who are into fitness like to keep track of metrics to see how well they are doing? That's just silly.
Why do you need to calculate all of that in a fucking app? This is fucking stupid. Am I crazy for thinking that a supposedly highly trained men need a god damn app to train? They can't go to the gym like normal dudes and just workout like we all do????
And a smart watch can calculate steps???
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.