A popular fitness app provided a convenient map for anyone interested in shadowing government personnel who exercised in secret locations, including intelligence agencies, military bases and airfields ...

Fitness tracking app Polar Flow allowed anyone with relatively little effort to work out the names, home addresses and daily movement routes of thousands of military and intelligence officials who ...

Running data from the popular Polar Flow app could show sensitive military details. (Staff Sgt. Jason W. Fudge/Marine Corps) Military officials working at nuclear weapons facilities. FBI and NSA ...

The fitness app Polar Flow exposes the whereabouts of some of its high-profile users, including “spies” and those with sensitive positions in the military. Fitness device maker Polar Flow suspended an ...

Finnish-based fitness tracking app Polar has temporarily disabled its global activity map feature after last week journalists used it to track down the real-world identities of military and ...

Polar, the Finnish brand best known for its heart rate monitoring equipment and wearables, has had to temporarily suspend their Explore feature, due to reports of location data being exposed. Various ...

Luke has been touching up tech, and writing, for over a decade across FHM, Stuff, T3 and Shortlist to name a few. With an MA and NCTJs in journalism and an unquenchable love of gadgets, no tech ...

Polar's fitness app had security flaws exposing the location data of its users, according to a joint investigation from De Correspondent and Bellingcat. This included the location details of soldiers ...

A long, long time ago, like in 2012, a few tech companies thought it would be a good idea to add wireless connectivity to weight scales. Fitbit made one, called the Aria. (The company still makes this ...