fitness trackers could have become the soldier's worst enemy look at this global heat map by a g.p.s. tracking company wherever it gets bright are the areas of the stronger apps most active use some places seem totally black like of ghana's stand for instance but we know there are american soldiers and parts of it zoom in tot all the little bright dots is where sam must hang out or to be more precise exercise it was a twenty year old student who first noticed how easy it was to find the u.s. bases this particular track looks like it logs or break you are jogging routes i shouldn't be able to establish any pattern of life from this far away so that's a real threat which the pentagon's admitted while only a few years ago they were happy to distribute thousands of fit bits among staff by the way there must be a number of temporary or even permanent u.s. bases that we don't know about journalists have zoomed in on areas around mosul and iraq and rocca in syria we're told uncle sam is there to train and assist since the rest of iraq and syria are pretty much all black perhaps locals don't really ha

fitness trackers could have become the soldier's worst enemy look at this global heat map by a g.p.s. tracking company wherever it gets bright are the areas of the stronger apps most active use some places seem totally black like of ghana's stand for instance but we know there are american soldiers and parts of it zoom in tot all the little bright dots is where sam must hang out or to be more precise exercise it was a twenty year old student who first noticed how easy it was to find the u.s. bases this particular track looks like it logs or break you are jogging routes i shouldn't be able to establish any pattern of life from this far away so that's a real threat which the pentagon's admitted while only a few years ago they were happy to distribute thousands of fit bits among staff by the way there must be a number of temporary or even permanent u.s. bases that we don't know about journalists have zoomed in on areas around mosul and iraq and roc-a in syria we're told uncle sam is there to train and assist since the rest of iraq and syria are pretty much all black perhaps locals don't really ha

fitness trackers could have become the soldiers' worst enemy look at this global heat map by a g.p.s. tracking company wherever it gets bright are the areas of the stronger apps most active use some places seem totally black like of ghana's stand for instance but we know there are american soldiers and parts of it zoom in tot all the little bright dots is where sam must hang out or to be more precise exercise it was a twenty year old student who first noticed how easy it was to find the u.s. bases this particular track looks like it logs or break into jogging route a shouldn't be able to establish any pattern of life from this far away so that's a real threat which the pentagon's admitted while only a few years ago they were happy to distribute thousands of fit bits among staff by the way there must be a number of temporary or even permanent u.s. bases that we don't know about journalists have zoomed in on areas around mosul and iraq and roc-a in syria we're told uncle sam is there to train and assist since the rest of iraq and syria are pretty much all black perhaps locals don't really have m

fitness trackers could have become the soldiers' worst enemy look at this global heat map by a g.p.s. tracking company wherever it gets bright are the areas of the stronger apps most active use some places seem totally black like of ghana's stand for instance but we know there are american soldiers and parts of it zoom in tot all the little bright dots is where sam must hang out or to be more precise exercise it was a twenty year old student who first noticed how easy it was to find the u.s. bases this particular track looks like it logs or break you or jogging routes i shouldn't be able to establish any pattern of life from this far away so that's a real threat which the pentagon's admitted while only a few years ago they were happy to distribute thousands of fit bits among staff by the way there must be a number of temporary or even permanent u.s. bases that we don't know about journalists have zoomed in on areas around mosul and iraq and rocca in syria we're told uncle sam is there to train and assist since the rest of iraq and syria are pretty much all black perhaps locals don't really hav

fitness trackers could have become the soldier's worst enemy look at this global heat map by a g.p.s. tracking company wherever it gets bright are the areas of the stronger apps most active use some places seem totally black like of ghana's stand for instance but we know there are american soldiers in parts of it zoom in tot all the little bright dots is where sam must hang out or to be more precise exercise it was a twenty year old student who first noticed how easy it was to find the u.s. bases this particular track looks like it logs or break into jogging route a shouldn't be able to establish any pattern of life from this far away so that's a real threat which the pentagon's admitted while only a few years ago they were happy to distribute thousands of fit bits among staff by the way there must be a number of temporary or even permanent u.s. bases that we don't know about journalists have zoomed in on areas around mosul and iraq and roc-a in syria we're told uncle sam is there to train and assist since the rest of iraq and syria are pretty much all black perhaps locals don't really have ma

fitness trackers could have become the soldier's worst enemy look at this global heat map by a g.p.s. tracking company wherever it gets bright are the areas of the struggle apps most active use some places seem totally black like of ghana stand for instance but we know there are american soldiers and parts of it zoom in tot all the little bright dots is where sam must hang out or to be more precise exercise it was a twenty year old student who first noticed how easy it was to find the u.s. bases this particular track looks like it logs or break you are jogging route i shouldn't be able to establish any pattern of life from this far away so that's a real threat which the pentagon's admitted while only a few years ago they were happy to distribute thousands of fit bits among staff by the way there must be a number of temporary or even permanent u.s. bases that we don't know about journalists have zoomed in on areas around mosul and iraq and roc-a in syria we're told uncle sam is there to train and assist since the rest of iraq and syria are pretty much all black perhaps locals don't really have

and it's have talked so what happened it's certainly become a headache the past few days the g.p.s. tracking company has taken information from around twenty seven million people and their fitness devices like foley just mentioned fitbit and jawbone to basically map the locations and movements of its subscribers now back in november the company posted they released an update to this heat map it shows a billion different movements that have been recorded over time now this map you're seeing isn't live but it shows activities from twenty fifteen to twenty seven seen using three trillion individual dots or data points that's latitude and longitude which have been collected over time now that shows how connected some people are in the united states and western europe japan and south korea and also how isolated areas in nations like north korea are basically off the grid now on saturday a twenty year old student an australian student at the australian national university that's in canberra his name is nathan bruiser and he started tweeting about the data that's contained in this map pointing out

g.p.s. callers are used to track the baboons movements once the pesky primates get close to town come the boom boxes. play calls pertaining to all predators the long course on the prison sounds of animals being killed they're scared to go. a few bangs for a bit. reinforces the scariest and the void. with the help of predators such as lions leopards and hyenas the aim is to create what they call a landscape of fear an imaginary birendra that the monkeys do not dare to cross for villagers in nearby her minus its music to their ears and i've noticed in the last two weeks since the team arrived with what they call the virtual fence and we've had large literally never variants for the last two weeks so we will be saying is there are magination are there certainly never birds but there are certainly no. at stake is the region's famed but been population until recently the cheeky monkeys would have been shot following positive results the plan is now to rule out the system in other cape town suburbs hopefully ensuring that fewer and fewer light fingered friends are killed unnecessarily. how to cover

they use railway tracks and their g.p.s. phones for a guide. reaching the border crossing in the dead of night. breaks revealing the beautiful countryside. in the darkness the group had made it into macedonia. now they set off north again towards the serbian buddha. and then she'd been. could comment on a bottle. but you can see one other. as the refugee crisis escalated that summer politicians in the balkans and the rest of europe was slow to appreciate its sheer scale. tens of thousands of people were left without cash or assistance left to sleep and hedge rows and open fields. before that only can a few. can i mean a machine and a mother develop the convention but they're going to do forty on your article has been shipped to. me. in. or and. i'm hot. how one. who will. be an. adult. are you. saying. they get. to get recruits. thank you so much. right. here with. thirty. three thousand seats. but after taking a look around the station did out a surprise to find a group of refugees sleeping rough behind the platforms soon it becomes clear why

uses a tracking device and g.p.s. . but it wasn't all fun and games at the consumer electronics show visitors at the convention were left in the dark during a power cut some areas were without light for more than an hour forcing people to use their mobile phones to find their way. at the top stories amnesty international is calling for an independent investigation into alleged atrocities by the military it follows the army's admission for the first time that its soldiers killed ten muslim rangar found buried in a mass grave the u.n. has accused military of ethnic cleansing scott hide from bangkok. if the military is taking this step now reversing itself from its internal investigation now what does that indicate are there more graves like this in rakhine state because it's very difficult to know for certain because independent investigators journalists independent international organizations have been very restricted and pretty much barred from going anywhere and conducting investigations in rakhine state so we really d

airport and never get lost the chinese concept is aptly called the puppy one that uses a tracking device with g.p.s. as a backup in case it loses contact but as part clamor for orders the inventors of the poppy one still needs more work before you go on the market. i think first lines work on the lower the price and the lower the weights i think the way to get out of the space we have the six to six which goes against six weeks i don't just like to touch the batteries but we have ready to. that's it for me to earn ten of this news hour back in a minute with another round up by. arthur . the sam's in archaeology graduate from iraq he's also a part time going to pergamon museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several billion museums taking part in the project called a meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasize the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with l

around the airport never get lost the chinese concept is aptly called a puppy one and uses a tracking device with g.p.s. has a backup in case it loses contact wasn't all fun and games though as thousands of visitors at a convention are left in the dark during a power outage some areas are without light for more than an hour forcing people to use their mobile phones to find their way. so i had. a former football manager. thanks very much the international olympic committee has set a date of january twentieth for a meeting between north and south korean officials at their headquarters in los suns president will chair the gathering to discuss the participation of north korean athletes at next month's winter olympics and kyung chang the north's i.o.c. representative chang was in lowes and on wednesday twenty four hours earlier government officials announced they would send athletes fans and journalists to the games in neighboring south korea followed a high level talks between the two countries. at this meeting they'll discuss how many north korean athletes will attend only to figure skating pair have qual

fall issue of around the airport never gets lost the inventions cold copy one that uses a tracking device and g.p.s. . so from this al-jazeera news out don't go away though because jane will be here in just a moment. to . arguments. the new poll ranks mexico city as the pool with worst in the world for sexual violence many women are attacked while moving in the crowded spaces of the metro buses and even at the hands of taxi drivers the conversation starts with do you have a boyfriend you're very pretty and young you feel unsafe threatened i think about how to react what do i do if this gets worse now mahdi army uses a new service it's called learn to drive it's for women passages only and drawn by women drivers. to some extra features like a panic button and twenty four seven monitoring of drivers you are making very pointed remarks when they're on line the main u.s. response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been to criminalize or if you join us on say no evil person just wakes up over the morning and say i want to cover the world in darkness this is a dialogue and that

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of happens everywhere it's widespread yeah absolutely these devices don't just track necessarily when you're running but g.p.s. devices tend to be on when you're driving when you're maybe walking around in the city if it's a watch that you're wearing so the patterns become a lot more stand out a lot more when we're looking at areas where there is either less connected devices or where there is less population overall and the thing that is feeling the most debate is how a floor in this i mean some people see it as a flaw that reveals like ation data and joking routes of active military personnel could have been of a look to something gone wrong and i don't think it's a flaw in the add this is essentially design that these services have and it's down to both the users and also the companies that may be allowing their users to have these insights where they maybe shouldn't to establish policies and really to raise awareness amongst the years i think it came off as quite a surprise to a lot of people that this kind of information was available and was out there and so it's about because we're now more and more in

says the best place to try out a car like this is a race track like the one he's at now and lucy is ask aryan race resort let's see what the g.p.s. can do. enthusiasts who were hoping for the comeback of a six cylinder engine in the new came in g.t.s. might be a bit disappointed to learn porsche stuck with a two point five liter flat for engine in this seven eighteen however its creator remains the same as for any of porsches recent g.p.s. models higher performance loads of new features and just about any driver system available on a normally extensive list of optional extras. here on the racetrack klaus's switched off vehicle safety systems that means he'll rely on the car's mechanical grip which he says is absolutely exquisite. the car responds precisely when he excel writes this is mike overstating. the thing about. which is easy enough to handle and either way these settings of these i. g t s models generally have the best overall package in their series a g.p.s. isn't a drastic redesign more like a sensible upgrade even normal payments and boxers just click around corners beautifully but the g.p.s. goes the extra mile with

tracks millions of users' athletic activity. the international security student discovered that these so-called heat maps, fro trillions of g.p.s.nts, not only show mundane g-city jogging routes, they also reveal the locations of bases where military forces and intelligence services exercise. here's a map he poed that he says shows where soldiers jog along the beach in madishu, somalia, near what is likely a reported c.i.a. annex. this is a map of the bagrham airfield in afghanistan. and here's a map showing where turkish forces patrol north of manbij in syria. for more on all of this we turn zack whittaker, the security editor at zd net, a website that covers technology. zach, thank you so much for joining us. help us understand exactly what information has been apparently inadvertently disclosed here that might beto of us enemies of the united states. >> so a lot of data, really. your fitness trackng ta from when you're walking, cycling, doing cross fit sports, all this data is obtained by the fitness tracker in your phone,ocket, on your wrist, and it goes to an app driver and uploaded to their systems. the point of the app is