How do I know that mobile phone location data – like the type publicly available on running app Strava – is useful to foreign intelligence services? Because we journalists use it, too.
For instance, this newspaper used the (publicly available) location data of suspected Russianspies to track them sneaking into the UK on cargo ships. Once here, they visited a military base, energy sites … and Tesco in Falkirk.
So our “UK StravaLeaks” investigation shows just how many military personnel at sensitive sites are leaking their ID and location – across every rank.
Our reporter tracked one of them to the exact nuclear submarine they are deployed on.We found it straightforward to identify a wealth of personal details including home addresses, family members and habits.
This matters because hostile actors routinely target UK military and political targets, using their personal details for surveillance and (sometimes) attempts at coercion. Since loose lips sink ships, what’s the Strava equivalent?
****Before you complain about bank holiday traffic, spare a thought for the four people who will, this weekend, travel further than any human has gone before.
Like many of us, they are crammed into a small vehicle. Unlike us, they must travel 695,000 miles through deep space and will lose contact with Earth for 40 minutes. Global interest is growing ahead of Easter Monday, when they pass around the far side of the Moon.
On the other hand, they don’t have to endure Bridgwater Services on the M5.
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