Dagens Nyheter has reviewed seven bodyguards within the security police, Säpo, with the task of protecting the Prime Minister. Their training activities have been open on the internet since they were registered on the training app.
With the help of the information from the running rounds, Dagens Nyheter has been able to map out where Ulf Kristersson, but also other protected persons in the government, have been.
That you can sit at home in your room and find out where they are by them publishing this information on Strava is of course a bit problematic. Then you have to hope that there are other security measures that make Ulf Kristersson protected, for example, says David Jacoby, IT security expert at the company Syndis.
"Taking action"
After DN contacted Säpo, the bodyguards have closed or locked their accounts from scrutiny. Now the routines will be reviewed.
We are now taking action to ensure that the routines are followed. Otherwise, I cannot go into our internal work more than that we are taking action to prevent it from happening again, says Carolina Björnsdotter Paasikivi, head of the security department at the Security Police, to DN.
David Jacoby does not think you should exaggerate the risks to Kristersson's security that just the information from the training apps has ended up in the hands of foreign power.
I think they have other channels where they can collect similar information. But it is a general problem that our lives are so exposed and available on the internet.
Naive attitude
Jacoby believes that we have a naive attitude towards how we use apps that collect information about us. It is a relatively new invention and we have not learned to live with it.
There are too many problems that arise because we do not know how to live together with IT. And this is, as said, a perfect example when you have sensitive persons who expose their data on the internet.
