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Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps (www.theverge.com)

submitted 19 hours ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] warm@kbin.earth 39 points 17 hours ago (7 children)

Effective November 11, the updated API agreement introduces three key changes that provide Strava users with greater control, security, and a consistent experience: 

Stronger Privacy Standards: Third-party apps may now only display a user’s Strava activity data to that specific user. Users will continue to have access to their personal Strava data across apps connected to our platform, though there may be differences in how this data appears.

Data Use Limitations: Our terms now explicitly prohibit third parties from using any data obtained via Strava’s API in artificial intelligence models or similar applications.

Protecting the Strava Experience: Additional terms have been added to protect Strava’s unique look and feel and functionality, helping users easily distinguish between Strava and third-party platforms.

Not that I use Strava or think anyone should, but the title is misleading no? It still allows third-party apps to still show you your own personal data and bans third-party apps from using that data in any machine learning.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 15 hours ago

The whole point of Strava is getting in data from you, other riders and other companies' gear and putting it together.

These new terms say that same data that they got from other sources they now can only keep it to themselves, and show you only what they specifically permit to show you.

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