Swedish bodyguards' fitness app data reveals private locations of royal family

Data from Swedish bodyguards' Strava apps revealed the royals took trips to a private island in the Seychelles and to a luxury villa on the French Riviera.

Sweden’s national security service said it was investigating reports that data shared by bodyguards on a fitness app had exposed the private locations of some of the country’s most powerful figures.

“The Swedish Security Police take the information very seriously,” a spokesperson for Säkerhetspolisen (SÄPO) wrote in a statement shared Thursday. “This is a matter of data that could be used to gather information about the activities of our Service.”

“We are now in the process of investigating what effect this might have had,” the spokesperson said.

It comes after the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported earlier this week that seven members of the security service were sharing details of their running and cycling routes on the fitness app Strava, inadvertently revealing the locations of the king and queen’s personal vacations.

That included trips to a private island in the Seychelles, the mountain village of Storlien in northern Sweden and, most recently, to a luxury villa on the French Riviera in June.