Strava closes the gates to sharing health information with different apps

We needed to supply some further context across the adjustments to our API Settlement and the impression for our customers and builders. We presently anticipate these adjustments will impression lower than .1% of functions and proactively notified the vast majority of these affected final week.

Enhanced Privateness and Consumer Management

Privateness and person management are on the forefront of our platform. Because of this, we’re dedicated to evolving our API practices as regulatory necessities and person expectations shift. This contains the choice to restrict the power of a person’s information to be displayed by third-party apps in methods the person could not count on. Particularly, we wish to thoughtfully tackle 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 most recent API adjustments tackle this state of affairs and supply a extra constant framework for Strava person information. 

Coaching AI Fashions

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

Third-party builders could not take such a deliberate strategy to coaching AI fashions and in consequence, we imagine the very best resolution 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 person information in mannequin coaching and improvement however we’ve made this extra specific in gentle of the growing exercise on this area. 

No Influence 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 lengthen 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 functions on the Strava platform–the overwhelming majority of current use instances are nonetheless allowed, together with teaching platforms targeted on offering suggestions to customers and instruments that assist customers perceive their information and efficiency.