# Best fitness tracker app (strava alternatives)

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/best-fitness-tracker-app-strava-alternatives/21632
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** 2024-10-19T20:45:52Z
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## Post 5 by @jerm — 2024-10-30T11:29:17Z

> [@Fitness app was used to locate the world’s most powerful people](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/fitness-app-was-used-to-locate-the-world-s-most-powerful-people/21946):
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> [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/oct/29/strava-problem-fitness-app-locate-worlds-most-powerful-people](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/oct/29/strava-problem-fitness-app-locate-worlds-most-powerful-people)[An investigation by French newspaper Le Monde](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/united-states/article/2024/10/28/biden-and-trump-put-in-danger-by-secret-service-agents-watch-the-second-episode-of-stravaleaks_6730825_133.html) has used it to track the movements of Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and other world leaders. Le Monde discovered that some US Secret Service agents use the app.. The paper also identified 12 members of French security group GSPR, and six members of the Russian FSO. In 2018, a student found it had [mapped US bases in Sy…](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases)

Strava compromised btw. Use FOSS alternatives.

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