Find out where Emmanuel Macron sleeps when he stays abroad. The information is valuable for anyone with bad intentions. However, you don’t have to be a formidable hacker or an experienced spy to access information. According to an investigation published Sunday in the newspaper The Worldit is available almost as “open source”, as long as you use the sports application Strava, a social network which allows runners to share their performances.
According to the daily, at least twelve members – police officers or gendarmes – of the Security Group of the Presidency of the Republic (GSPR) use it, sometimes sharing their names, details of their private lives and above all recording their GPS data, including their starting and ending points when they stretch their legs.
Biden and Putin too?
Journalists from Monde were able to cross-reference around a hundred presidential trips between 2016 and 2024 (including some by François Hollande) with the jogging of members of the GSPR. Better, or worse, while departure points can be hidden in the app, they were able to identify luxury hotel establishments ten times and deduce that the head of state was staying there.
Contacted by the daily about this security breach, the Elysée indicated that the hotels in question were in any case entirely secure and that “the consequences (…) linked to the use of the Strava application by certain members of the GSPR at the opportunity for their jogging is very low.
The World must publish two other episodes of his “StravaLeaks”, one on Joe Biden, the other on Vladimir Putin.