I immediately thought of this, too.
To maintain privacy using Strava
- Check and adjust privacy settings.
- Use a pseudonym instead of your real name.
- Be cautious about sharing personal information in posts/comments/pictures.
- Keep the app updated.
- Start tracking your activities away from home location ideally in dense populated area
Article states that researchers tested accuracy was 37.5%. Still that’s high enough to have a habit of staring and stopping tracking activity further away from home location.
To maintain privacy using Strava
- Stop using Strava
That would be ideal solution but for someone that cycles there is no alternative social app. There are great alternatives for tracking your fitness, progress, routes and stats but from social perspective everyone is using Strava. Sometimes you don’t have a choice as some companies using it exclusively to track group efforts and if you want to take part of charity events this is it. The same goes with virtual events where group is tracked via their activities in Strava towards some goal (usually climbing or distance).
There was another issue few weeks back that allowed researches to use API’s to get someones precise route coordinates even when map visibility settings where disabled. The only way to prevent someone from getting your location is not to record it (start recording further away from your home).
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