We needed to supply some extra context across the modifications to our API Settlement and the affect for our customers and builders. We at present anticipate these modifications will affect lower than .1% of functions and proactively notified nearly all 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 power of a consumer’s knowledge to be displayed by third-party apps in methods the consumer might not count on. Particularly, we wish to thoughtfully deal with 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 most recent API modifications deal with this state of affairs and supply a extra constant framework for Strava consumer 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 house should be dealt with responsibly and with a agency give attention to 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 choose out.
Third-party builders might not take such a deliberate method to coaching AI fashions and in consequence, 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 consumer knowledge in mannequin coaching and growth however we’ve made this extra express in mild of the growing exercise on this house.
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 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 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.
