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App and website developer Strava, which bills itself as "the social network for athletes," has landed in hot water after publishing a global heat map that shows where and how often users travel on specific routes while recording their workouts via the company's app, which runs on smartphones and wearables.

Strava's heat map, titled "where we play," highlights routes for those ranging from hikers on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage trail in Spain to kiteboarders in Mexico.

But many active U.S. and NATO military personnel - often necessarily obsessive about their fitness - are avid users too, especially when they're stationed overseas. And the "big data" amassed and published by the San Francisco firm appears to have revealed the...

Regulators, attorneys general and lawmakers in the U.S., U.K. and Canada continue to spring into action to try and unravel the events that led to the personal information of as many as 60 million Facebook users leaking to a voter-profiling firm (see Probes Begin as Facebook Slammed by Data Leak Blowback).

The firm, London-based Cambridge Analytica, claims to be able to sway voters through careful profiling of online platforms and crafted social media messaging.

Since 2015, Facebook knew the firm had acquired the data by means that violated its own policies, and some particulars of the situation have featured in press reports for at least a year. But information disclosed by Chris Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytics data scientist...