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 ...

Fitness tracking app Polar Flow allowed anyone with relatively little effort to work out the names, home addresses and daily movement routes of thousands of military and intelligence officials who ...

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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Polar, the Finnish brand best known for its heart rate monitoring equipment and wearables, has had to temporarily suspend their Explore feature, due to reports of location data being exposed. Various ...

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 ...

New smart bracelet is first to combine activity tracking with heart rate monitoring to guide users to a more active and healthy lifestyle LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Sept. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Polar today ...

A long, long time ago, like in 2012, a few tech companies thought it would be a good idea to add wireless connectivity to weight scales. Fitbit made one, called the Aria. (The company still makes this ...

Polar is a huge player in the wearable sports and fitness sensor world. The company makes heart rate monitors among other things and has announced a new system called Polar Balance. Polar Balance is a ...