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by jacquesm 3064 days ago
I saw this unfolding bit by bit and thought: Wow, these people have not been paying attention during the AOL 'anonymized' research database fiasco.

Let's wait to see how long it will take before someone figures out how to ID the security detail jogging with a president somewhere.

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look at the whitehouse lawn in the heat map, there's what looks like data from someone walking the yard.
Obama wears/wore a Fitbit. But the tracks on top of the WH look like intermediate paths, e.g. someone jogs past the SE corner at e.g. 9:20, and the GPS signal is lost, and then they are spotted again at 9:40 at the NW corner, then the line would be drawn across the WH.

Like any other data breach, it speaks for the customers who want offline, non-cloud solutions...

that makes sense.
I looked this up on the map and the only activity I see is in The Ellipse and Lafayette Square. I see no activity at all around the White house itself or the South Lawn. Has the data since been scrubbed?

The Pentagon is also entirely dark.

this is what I see when I look at the south lawn https://imgur.com/DslRELO
it's faint, indicating it may only be one or two users who tracked their activity there, but it's there.
I switched to another color and set to only foot traffic and I see some faint activity but it appears to run along the fence, I don't see anything inside what I think is the secure perimeter of the White House grounds. I admit to not being familiar with the perimeter there though.
there's tracks on the runways at Andrews air force base.