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Do you use Strava? How to protect your geolocation data

By betting its entire concept on the exchange of sports-related data, the Strava application can endanger its users. However, it is possible to protect your data. Tech&Co explains how.

Created in 2009, Strava allows you to log more than 30 different activities, including running and cycling. The application also encourages its users to share their data, with its motto “Record. Sweat Share”, which can be seen on its site, with more than 100 million users in 195 countries, and is defined as “the social network of users”. athletes.”

By sharing their runs and other workouts, users can be congratulated by their friends. But it is possible that other users will see this shared data, through public rankings or challenges of the traveled or traveled segments.

However, by sharing this data, users expose themselves to risks, especially in terms of security. Used by some of Emmanuel Macron’s bodyguards, Strava, for example, made it possible to follow the president’s movements abroad and know where he would stay a few days in advance, thanks to the recordings of his races.

Protect your data

However, it is possible to protect your data on Strava, as the app indicates on a dedicated support page. By default, details of the sessions you have held, including your location on a map, are accessible to everyone. A setting that can be modified to protect your privacy.

To do this, simply go to settings and then tap “Privacy Controls.” From there, users have three visibility options to choose from in the “Activities” section: “Everyone,” “Subscribers,” and “Only You.”

With the first option, all Strava users can access the user’s activity page. Anyone on the Internet can also view it, but through an “offline version” that will show data on distance, travel time and even calories burned. And above all, the famous travel map.

By selecting “Subscribers”, users prevent their activity from appearing on leaderboards and challenges, making it only accessible to their subscribers. Finally, as the name suggests, only the user has access to their activity page with the “Only you” option. That is, your activity does not appear on your profile.

Please note that it is possible to choose one of these three options as a “default preference” for all activities or for an individual activity.

Author: Kesso Diallo
Source: BFM TV

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