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Unsecured fitness monitor data revealed military guard post (IIRC) activity a while back.
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not because you knew how much someone worked out. But because it had GPS.

True.

But keep in mind that other less obvious data sources can often lead to similar issues. For example phone accelerometer data can be used to precisely locate someone driving in a car in a city by comparing it with a street map.

In the context of the military even just inferring a comprehensive map of which people are on which shift and when they change might be considered a threat.




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