Strava closes the gates to sharing health information with different apps

We wished to offer some further context across the adjustments to our API Settlement and the influence for our customers and builders. We presently anticipate these adjustments will influence lower than .1% of purposes and proactively notified nearly all of these affected final week.

Enhanced Privateness and Consumer Management

Privateness and consumer management are on the forefront of our platform. Consequently, we’re dedicated to evolving our API practices as regulatory necessities and consumer expectations shift. This consists of the choice to restrict the power of a consumer’s information to be displayed by third-party apps in methods the consumer could not anticipate. Particularly, we need to thoughtfully deal with conditions the place customers connect with a third-party app and are unaware that their information is being surfaced not only for their very own use and visibility, but additionally to different customers (for instance, in a public feed or heatmap). The newest API adjustments deal with this situation and supply a extra constant framework for Strava consumer information. 

Coaching AI Fashions

We consider within the potential of AI to rework the athlete expertise–whether or not it’s delivering extra personalised insights that will help you attain your targets, producing route or coaching suggestions, or numerous different prospects. However innovation on this house should be dealt with responsibly and with a agency give attention to consumer management. As a part of our generative AI options, we’re dedicated to implementing considerate options that prioritize consumer management and the power to choose out. 

Third-party builders could not take such a deliberate method to coaching AI fashions and in consequence, we consider one of the best choice for the platform and for customers is to ban using information extracted from Strava customers on this method. Our earlier phrases already disallowed using Strava consumer information in mannequin coaching and improvement however we’ve made this extra specific in mild of the growing exercise on this house. 

No Affect to Most Builders

We acknowledge that our platform thrives due to the creativity and dedication of third-party builders who construct instruments to enrich and prolong Strava’s capabilities. We’re steadfast in our dedication to fostering this ecosystem. We anticipate that these adjustments will have an effect on solely a small fraction (lower than .1%) of the purposes on the Strava platform–the overwhelming majority of current use circumstances are nonetheless allowed, together with teaching platforms centered on offering suggestions to customers and instruments that assist customers perceive their information and efficiency.