# French Aircraft Carrier Located in Real Time Via Fitness App

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/french-aircraft-carrier-located-in-real-time-via-fitness-app/36530
**Category:** News
**Created:** 2026-03-24T18:51:51Z
**Posts:** 5

## Post 1 by @fria — 2026-03-24T18:51:51Z

French newspaper _Le Monde_ was able to [locate](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/20/stravaleaks-france-s-aircraft-carrier-located-in-real-time-by-le-monde-through-fitness-app_6751640_4.html) a French aircraft carrier in real time using publicly available profile information of a French Navy officer on the fitness app Strava.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/03/24/french-aircraft-carrier-located-in-real-time-via-fitness-app](https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/03/24/french-aircraft-carrier-located-in-real-time-via-fitness-app)

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## Post 2 by @privacy.slouchy — 2026-03-24T19:03:41Z

Catastrophic OPSEC failure on the officer’s part, absolutely; dont track & share location data while deployed, dummy

But also… do sailors gets cell reception in the middle of the Mediterranean?

A reasonable person can ask why French officers on a military operation even have the _capability_ to leak sensitive intel in this way lol - do the French offer satellite-based WiFi hotspots on their ships, institute 0 firewall filters, and assume no intel will be leaked??

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## Post 3 by @anon25722375 — 2026-03-24T19:12:14Z

> [@privacy.slouchy](#):
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> OPSEC failure on the officer’s part

I think his C.O. and the training/OPSEC of the French military is to be blamed more. That’s where the buck stops.

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## Post 4 by @fria — 2026-03-24T19:28:20Z

> [@privacy.slouchy](#):
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> But also… do sailors gets cell reception in the middle of the Mediterranean?

Apparently lol

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## Post 5 by @seize — 2026-03-24T20:00:15Z

> **Tangentially related/Off-topic**
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> Reminds me of when some US Navy officers got caught having sneaked an unsecured Starlink satellite dish onto a warship.
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> [https://apnews.com/article/navy-illegal-wireless-internet-534007ea8b374bce3189c42449902b2c](https://apnews.com/article/navy-illegal-wireless-internet-534007ea8b374bce3189c42449902b2c)  
> [https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/sailors-hid-an-unauthorized-starlink-on-the-deck-of-a-us-warship-and-lied-about-it/](https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/sailors-hid-an-unauthorized-starlink-on-the-deck-of-a-us-warship-and-lied-about-it/)
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> I get that these are two different issues, but I think it just goes to show how difficult it is to mandate strict digital opsec in such large and bureaucratic organizations.