Less than seven months ago, a group of journalists and Internet sleuths reported that the fitness-tracking application Strava was revealing highly sensitive information about U.S. military personnel ...

It’s comfortable to wear, delivers great battery life, and gets both sleep and basic health tracking right – but the Polar ...

The Polar Loop monitors activity, sleep, and heart rate in a design familiarized by Whoop. The key difference is a one-time payment that gets you the device and all its features.

Fitness tracking app Polar Flow has been broadcasting the whereabouts of personnel at military bases and intelligence services across the globe, an investigation has revealed. The app, developed by ...

Finnish-based fitness tracking app Polar has temporarily disabled its global activity map feature after last week journalists used it to track down the real-world identities of military and ...

Running data from the popular Polar Flow app could show sensitive military details. (Staff Sgt. Jason W. Fudge/Marine Corps) Military officials working at nuclear weapons facilities. FBI and NSA ...

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A popular fitness app provided a convenient map for anyone interested in shadowing government personnel who exercised in secret locations, including intelligence agencies, military bases and airfields ...

Prying eyes. Polar now joins Strava in the list of fitness app makers accidentally betraying military information. According to a report from the Dutch publication De Correspondent, an opt-in feature ...

Who would have thought getting in shape could be so risky. Fitness apps help you track your runs, calories burned, and maybe even your heart rate. If you happen to be using a Polar device and its ...

You would think fitness apps would have learned from Strava’s example, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Six months after discovering that Strava was inadvertently revealing sensitive ...

Polar is a leading brand in consumer heart rate monitors. The new, high-end chest strap monitor, the Polar H10 ($89.95 on Amazon), has just about all of the bells and whistles you could want in a ...