The IT Nerd

Because I am a very athletic person, I post my bike rides as well as my walks, hikes and cross country skiing to Strava. And so do my friends who do similar activities. But I have to admit that I am rethinking that at the moment as this thread on Strava’s Community Forums says this:

I spent some time looking at the settings within Strava and found no way to opt out. So when this goes into effect today, every Strava user is opted into having their data shoved into some AI whether they want to have that happen or not.

That my friends is a complete and total #fail. Users should always have the choice to opt into something and not to be forced to opt out of it. And it’s worse when users have no choice to opt out as is the case here. So it leaves me wondering if I should be taking my data, deleting it, and finding another place to post my athletic activities. Because clearly Strava doesn’t care enough about their user base to give them the choice as to how their data is handed.

Oh, by the way, I suspect that once the EU finds out about this, they’ll be having a word with Strava. And it won’t be nice…. For Strava.

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