Strava closes the gates to sharing health knowledge with different apps

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

Enhanced Privateness and Person 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 consists of the choice to restrict the flexibility of a person’s knowledge to be displayed by third-party apps in methods the person could not anticipate. Particularly, we wish to thoughtfully tackle 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 additionally to different customers (for instance, in a public feed or heatmap). The most recent API modifications tackle this state of affairs 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 will help 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 concentrate on 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 method to coaching AI fashions and because of this, we consider the very 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 person knowledge in mannequin coaching and improvement however we’ve made this extra specific in mild of the rising exercise on this area. 

No Impression 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 modifications 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 knowledge and efficiency.