National Security Risks Associated with the Strava App

The Strava App story seems to have mesmerised readers worldwide. Understandably so. People as sensors is a concept that has gathered momentum in the fields of location-based services, social media and crowdsourcing applications. In 2003, I recognised the potential of GPS/GIS and ran a study titled Spatial Database National Australian (S-DNA) that was funded by the University of Wollongong. Here are some of the first outcomes of the work, that later grew to be funded by the Australian Research Council as a Discovery Project:

• Location-based intelligence - modeling behavior in humans

• The Emerging Ethics of Humancentric GPS Tracking and Monitoring

National Security Risks Associated with Strava

Katina Michael with Dan Bourchier: ABC Canberra

Citation: Katina Michael and Dan Bourchier, "National Security Risks Associated with the Strava App", ABC Radio Canberra: Breakfast, January 31, 2018. http://www.abc.net.au/radio/canberra/programs/breakfast/breakfast/9354942

External Links: 

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases

• http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/australian-learns-how-strava-heat-map-reveals-dangerous-information-from-jogging-us-soldiers-20180128-h0pq5i.html

• https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/28/strava-exposes-military-bases/

• http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42853072

• http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-01-29/strava-heat-map-shows-military-bases-and-supply-routes/9369490

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