Pentagon restricts use of geolocation program for troops

WASHINGTON – The US troops is prohibiting a deployed crew from regulating geolocation facilities on smartphones, aptness trackers and other inclination since they could emanate confidence risks by divulgence their location, a Pentagon pronounced on Monday.

The preference follows concerns lifted in Jan when an Australian researcher’s research of information posted by Strava, a aptness tracking app, on activities of a users suggested locations of American army in Syria and Iraq.

The Pentagon done open a memo released on Friday that pronounced a geolocation capabilities presented a “significant risk.”

“These geolocation capabilities can display personal information, locations, routines, and numbers of Department personnel, and potentially emanate unintended confidence consequences and increasing risk to a corner force and mission,” it said.

The memo pronounced Defense Department crew were taboo from regulating “geolocation facilities and functionality on supervision and non-government-issued devices, applications, and services while in locations designated as operational areas.”

The anathema takes outcome immediately, it said.

Strava posted feverishness maps display movements of people sportive while wearing aptness tracker inclination and publicly pity a time and plcae of their workouts around a app.

Outlines of US outposts in Syria and Iraq could be seen in a maps since many US troops crew used aptness tracking devices, while few internal people possess them, according to media reports.