In 2018, The Washington Post published an article that unraveled some potentially unsettling information about the U.S. military: Service members were possibly giving away the locations of U.S. military bases with their fitness trackers. The article explains that Strava, a GPS tracking service, publishes a heat map showing activity where people use fitness trackers like Fitbit. Although the heat map isn't in real-time, it does note activity over the past year. (View Highlight)

Later that same year, news broke from the Pentagon that fitness trackers like Fitbit would no longer be allowed for deployed service members. According to the statement (via MilitaryTimes), "The rapidly evolving market of devices, applications, and services with geolocation capabilities presents a significant risk to the Department of Defense personnel on and off duty, and to our military operations globally." (View Highlight)