We wished to offer some extra context across the adjustments to our API Settlement and the affect for our customers and builders. We at the moment anticipate these adjustments 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. In consequence, 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 information to be displayed by third-party apps in methods the consumer could not count on. Particularly, we need 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 in addition to different customers (for instance, in a public feed or heatmap). The newest API adjustments handle this state of affairs and supply a extra constant framework for Strava consumer information.
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 targets, producing route or coaching suggestions, or numerous different prospects. 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 flexibility to decide out.
Third-party builders could not take such a deliberate strategy to coaching AI fashions and because of this, we consider 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 growth however we’ve made this extra express in mild of the growing exercise on this house.
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 enrich and prolong 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 centered on offering suggestions to customers and instruments that assist customers perceive their information and efficiency.
