We needed to supply some further context across the modifications to our API Settlement and the affect for our customers and builders. We at the moment anticipate these modifications will affect lower than .1% of functions and proactively notified nearly all of these affected final week.
Enhanced Privateness and Person 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 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 wish to thoughtfully handle 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 modifications handle this situation and supply a extra constant framework for Strava consumer 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 can assist you attain your objectives, producing route or coaching suggestions, or numerous different potentialities. However innovation on this house 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 power to decide out.
Third-party builders could not take such a deliberate method to coaching AI fashions and because of this, we imagine the most effective determination for the platform and for customers is to ban the usage of information extracted from Strava customers on this method. Our earlier phrases already disallowed the usage of Strava consumer information in mannequin coaching and improvement however we’ve made this extra express in gentle of the growing exercise on this house.
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 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 functions on the Strava platform–the overwhelming majority of current use circumstances are nonetheless allowed, together with teaching platforms targeted on offering suggestions to customers and instruments that assist customers perceive their information and efficiency.