Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other 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 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. In consequence, we’re dedicated to evolving our API practices as regulatory necessities and person expectations shift. This contains the choice to restrict the flexibility of a person’s knowledge to be displayed by third-party apps in methods the person could not count on. Particularly, we need to thoughtfully deal with conditions the place customers hook up 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 most recent API adjustments deal with this situation and supply a extra constant framework for Strava person knowledge. 

Coaching AI Fashions

We consider within the potential of AI to remodel the athlete expertise–whether or not it’s delivering extra customized insights that can assist you attain your objectives, 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 flexibility to choose out. 

Third-party builders could not take such a deliberate strategy to coaching AI fashions and because of this, we consider the most effective resolution for the platform and for customers is to ban using knowledge extracted from Strava customers on this method. Our earlier phrases already disallowed using Strava person knowledge in mannequin coaching and improvement however we’ve made this extra express in mild of the rising 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 enhance 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 present use instances are nonetheless allowed, together with teaching platforms targeted on offering suggestions to customers and instruments that assist customers perceive their knowledge and efficiency.