Arm in arm on the Champs-Elysées, in shorts and caps, four agents of the United States Secret Service (USSS) take a photo. They are in Paris to secure the trip of the president’s wife, Jill Biden, who is representing the United States during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games. The problem: what they publish on the Internet is much more than simple photos of tourists.
Because these agents are fans of the social network for athletes Strava. Using a smartphone or connected watch, they record their running data and then publish it periodically on the platform. Unless they publicly share this geolocated information. That is, Secret Service agents communicate, without being aware of it, their movements, including professional ones, over the Internet.
Your private life is accessible with just a few clicks.
From the profiles of the bodyguards it is also possible, with a few clicks, to know almost everything about their private life. A USSS agent under the presidencies of Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden, for example, made his habit in the mountains of the American West for eight years in a row. Finally, it is easy to identify the home addresses of at least twelve of the twenty-six agents we identified.
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