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Privacy Setting to Prevent Bike Theft

It would be very helpful if Garmin Connect could allow us to set up a privacy zone around our home so we can make our rides public and participate in segments.
Without such a feature we cannot make our rides public without making the location of our home public. Then, it is just too easy for people to use Garmin Connect as a go-to place to find out where expensive bikes are. If someone were to find out that their home was broken into because its location is posted for everyone to see, that would seriously hurt Garmin Connect's chances of succeeding.

0 travis.vitek over 11 years ago

If no activity details are shown, but the activity shows up on the leaderboard it will be impossible to identify cheaters. Eventually, when Garmin gets around to allowing us to flag cheaters, this will be necessary.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

It is already pretty easy to cheat on Strava, and that service has the blackout home zone mentioned on this forum.

Maybe let segment owners decide whether showing full activity details is mandatory to participate in the leaderboard?

0 travis.vitek over 11 years ago

It is already pretty easy to cheat on Strava, and that service has the blackout home zone mentioned on this forum.

It may be easy to cheat, but it is also equally easy to flag a cheat. The blackout zones are only in effect for specific areas, so unless the countryside is littered with blackout zones, the data is visible for others to see.

Maybe let segment owners decide whether showing full activity details is mandatory to participate in the leaderboard?

What would be the point in that? People that want on the leaderboards for segments still won't want to give activity details, and people that cheat will just take all of the segments where the details don't have to be shown.

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

+1 for this feature please

If this feature was available I could start sharing my rides on facebook/twitter.

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

I see Garmin took this request seriously, not.

over 3 years since original post and still no sign of the privacy zone setting beung implimented.

Another +1 for the feature.

0 ASmugDill over 8 years ago

over 3 years since original post and still no sign of the privacy zone setting beung implimented.

Oh, will you please actually do some looking around before engaging in baseless whinging next time?

https://forums.garmin.com/forum/into-sports/garmin-connect/155232-

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

1+ ... must be qualified.

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0 Former Member over 8 years ago

Oh, will you please actually do some looking around before engaging in baseless whinging next time?

https://forums.garmin.com/forum/into...onnect/155232-

You don't need to be a Smug Dick about it. A link saying check this would suffice. It' a cluster F on here trying to find anything.