A French naval officer inadvertently exposed the real-time location of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle by publicly logging a workout on a fitness app, allowing analysts to pinpoint the ship’s position in the Mediterranean during a sensitive deployment.
The incident highlights ongoing security risks from wearable tech and geolocation data, prompting renewed concerns about “digital hygiene” in military operations. Peter Suciu of The National Interest writes:
There was a time when the byword in world militaries was “Loose Lips Sink Ships,” a reminder to everyone not to share military secrets. Today, the danger isn’t just what some people might share—although that is still a problem, particularly in the era of social media—but what they might wear!
Such was the case with the location of the Marine Nationale’s (French Navy’s) flagship aircraft carrier, Charles de Gaulle, which was identified when one of its young officers tracked his daily run on the flight deck via his smartwatch. […]
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