An investigation by French newspaper Le Monde found that the highly confidential movements of U.S. President Joe Biden, presidential rivals Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and other world leaders can be easily tracked online through a fitness app that their bodyguards use.

But the U.S. Secret Service told the newspaper that it doesn’t believe the protection it provides was in any way compromised.

Le Monde found that some U.S. Secret Service agents use the Strava fitness app, including in recent weeks after two assassination attempts on Trump, in a video investigation released in French and in English. Strava is a fitness tracking app primarily used by runners and cyclists to record their activities and share their workouts with a community.

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      So they can use it to help in maintaining their required high level of fitness?

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          Do you know what Strava is? It’s for tracking your times and routes, your level of expertise is irrelevant.

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          Do you think they memorize how many steps they took? Do you think they calculate calories burned in real time in their head?

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            Why do you need to calculate all of that in a fucking app? This is fucking stupid. Am I crazy for thinking that a supposedly highly trained men need a god damn app to train? They can’t go to the gym like normal dudes and just workout like we all do???
            And a smart watch can calculate steps???

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          explain, you fucking jackasses 😂. Downvotes don’t mean shit on Lemmy btw.

          🤣🤣 BOMBS AWAY 🤣🤣

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      Fitness isn’t something you just achieve and it’s done. You need to keep exercising to retain that level of fitness.

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      They’re highly trained and want to show their friends how far they ran this morning.

      Kind of like when Special Forces guys showed off their morning runs on the same app a few years ago. In a patch of Yemen that they weren’t officially supposed to be on.

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      Aren’t they supposed to be already “highly trained” individuals? Instead of downvoting, explain, you fucking jackasses 😂.

      You’re being downvoted for suddenly jumping into conspiracy theory mode instead of asking normally.

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        So suspecting something is now a conspiracy theory? Gotta love the internet lol

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      explain, you fucking jackasses 😂. Downvotes don’t mean shit on Lemmy btw.

      🤣🤣 BOMBS AWAY 🤣🤣