Iain Thomson reports:
The French equivalent of the US Secret Service may have been letting their guard down, as an investigation showed they are easily trackable via the fitness app Strava.
An investigation by Le Monde has shown that members of the Security Group for the Presidency of the Republic (GSPR) have been openly displaying their location on the popular software during their workout sessions. Since they travel with President Emmanuel Macron, this makes it fairly easy to work out his location. A dozen of his bodyguards were leaking key information this way.
“Macron’s security guards record and publish their runs on the platform. But there’s a problem: They are sharing geolocalized information publicly,” the newspaper reports.
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