Out running this morning and a lady runs past me

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&#x2F;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

&gt; <i>&quot;So basically if someone sees a woman running alone there&#x27;s an app they can go to see her name, picture and address&quot;</i><p>Only if she&#x27;s using Strava. I&#x27;m no runner, but I&#x27;m sure there are better running apps out there. Like ones that don&#x27;t share your private data with the entire world.

Terrible! This should be disabled by default! Safety first always!

Outsider here. What is Strava? How widespread is it&#x27;s use?

&gt;So basically if someone sees a woman running alone there&#x27;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.