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Data protection - Strava

Marcel
8 months ago

My Garmin Connect profile is linked to Strava. I didn't want to share my activities publicly with my friends recently! I have therefore set the privacy settings (in Garmin Connect) so that new activities are only visible to me. In Garmin, the activities are also shown as "locked", but still appear for a few minutes with my friends and then disappear again. On Strava, however, all activities are displayed! This is unbelievable and unacceptable. I am considering taking legal action. I have now cancelled the connection to Strava.

Mein Garmin Connect Profil ist mit Strava verknüpft. Ich wollte in letzter Zeit meine Aktivitäten nicht mehr öffentlich mit meinen Freunden teilen! Daher habe ich bei den Datenschutzeinstellungen (in Garmin Connect) eingestellt, dass neue Aktivitäten nur noch für mich sichtbar sind. In Garmin werden die Aktivitäten auch als "gesperrt" angezeigt, erscheinen aber dennoch für ein paar Minuten bei meinen Freunden und verschwinden dann wieder. Auf Strava werden hingegen alle Aktivitäten angezeigt! Das ist unglaublich und inakzeptabel. Ich bin am überlegen rechtliche Schritte einzuleiten. Die Verbindung zu Strava habe ich jetzt beendet. 

  • 0 8 months ago

    The settings in Garmin got no effect on Strava. You have to set the privacy in Strava yourself. https://www.strava.com/settings/privacy 

  • 0 8 months ago in reply to e7andy

    Thank you for the reply. Yes, that makes sense. But I don't think it's right that the data in Strava is visible to everyone, even though I've set it to private in Garmin. If I record with a Garmin device, then I should also have control over the privacy settings there, regardless of where the data is sent. Strava should automatically adopt this setting. I've learnt this lesson now, but it can have dire consequences for other people who make the same mistake.

  • 0 8 months ago in reply to Marcel

    You decided to connect Garmin Connect to Strava. Strava fetches the activities from Garmin when Strava is notified about a new activity upload and stores them on their side. Which privacy settings you have set in Strava is unknown to Garmin and Strava doesn't know which privacy settings you have set in Garmin.

    You have to talk to Strava about the default privacy settings they use for new accounts.

  • 0 8 months ago in reply to 1025854

    Okay, I realise that. It was my mistake, but still badly done!

  • 0 8 months ago

    You could simply change the default privacy level for activities in Strava to followers or private. 

    I personally use a default level of private so I have full control over what I spam to everyone else’s feeds haha