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PeterStuer 3 hours ago

Many questions:

I can assume Strava is GDPR compliant and would not publish this information without the sailors concent?

Does the French military not stress in their training the dangers of these data disclosures?

Why does the carriers network not have adequate measures against this sort of data exfiltration?

Why is Le Monde tracking a french sailors location data?

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philipwhiuk 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> I can assume Strava is GDPR compliant and would not publish this information without the sailors concent?

Historically there was a problem where user's data was aggregated into a global view. But these days you'd have to follow the user on Strava to get this sort of track.

I suspect that a journalist at Le Monde has a naval buddy on Strava and posted the story.

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PeterStuer 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So how did the carriers network not block Strava? I doubt the sailors watch was direct to satellite.

And why would a Le Monde 'journalist' dox his 'buddy' and expose and thus endanger the ship? Anything for a click?

	▲	philipwhiuk an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> So how did the carriers network not block Strava? I'm sure someone in the tech team is getting questioned on this.

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loeg 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Surely the GPDR does not prevent users from consenting to share their data with a public audience.

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philipwhiuk an hour ago | parent [-]

It doesn't, but the effect of gaining consent and being opt-in vastly reduced the data. Strava also made it (in 2019) so you'd need at least N samples for it to be visible rather than simply a single user.

	▲	loeg 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Public sharing on Strava is opt-in for users outside of Europe, too. Yet many users choose to share publically. > Strava also made it (in 2019) so you'd need at least N samples for it to be visible Presumably you're talking about the Global Heatmap? This used to be updated only annually. Is it more real-time now?