Strava closes the gates to sharing health knowledge with different apps

We needed to offer some extra context across the modifications to our API Settlement and the influence for our customers and builders. We at the moment anticipate these modifications will influence lower than .1% of purposes and proactively notified the vast majority of these affected final week.

Enhanced Privateness and Consumer Management

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

Coaching AI Fashions

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

Third-party builders could not take such a deliberate strategy to coaching AI fashions and because of this, we imagine one of the best resolution for the platform and for customers is to ban the usage of knowledge extracted from Strava customers on this method. Our earlier phrases already disallowed the usage of Strava consumer knowledge in mannequin coaching and growth however we’ve made this extra express in mild of the rising exercise on this area. 

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 enhance and prolong Strava’s capabilities. We’re steadfast in our dedication to fostering this ecosystem. We anticipate that these modifications will have an effect on solely a small fraction (lower than .1%) of the purposes on the Strava platform–the overwhelming majority of present use circumstances are nonetheless allowed, together with teaching platforms centered on offering suggestions to customers and instruments that assist customers perceive their knowledge and efficiency.