This could’ve been easily prevented if she’d bothered to read the 4000 word privacy policy and carefully scoured every dark corner of the app’s settings for user-hostile defaults.
The headline for this should be “Strava endangers the lives and safety of women.”<p>The current headline essentially says “I went for a walk today and something mildly interesting happened.”
Used to happen to me on bike rides all the time. You can enable a settings that fuzzes your starting/ending location by half a mile, but that is pretty deep in the settings.<p>Unrelated - my Strava got hacked and I now follow hundreds of Brazilians. Strava support said kick rocks, and changing my password didn’t resolve it. Now I just don’t track rides
> <i>"So basically if someone sees a woman running alone there's an app they can go to see her name, picture and address"</i><p>Only if she's using Strava. I'm no runner, but I'm sure there are better running apps out there. Like ones that don't share your private data with the entire world.
>So basically if someone sees a woman running alone there's an app they can go to see her name, picture and address<p>How sexist. Women are as a strong as men and should not be treated like babies.