4) Strava sells your data, doesn’t notify you, doesn’t allow opt-out: Now what’s interesting here is that I’m actually not opposed at all to the end-goal of what Strava is trying to do with
communities and bike paths. However, there’s a bunch of problems with how they went about it (
just like last year). First as far as I read their policy agreement, they violated it. It’s very clear in their agreement that they won’t sell your information (which is what they’re doing). Second, they didn’t communicate it, or anything about it on their own site (which they also said they’d do in their agreement). Third, they’re using the bike path thing as a distraction for a single line in the article – which is really important – they’ll also sell to ‘companies’. Fourth, they allow companies to buy a single user’s data (for 80 cents a month). So while I’m all for them using my (
paid-subscription) data if they ask me nicely (per their policy), I’d really like to control what type of organizations it goes to.
