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Re How the Spies Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Fitbit
From: "Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:24:28 +0000
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: DV Henkel-Wallace <gumby () henkel-wallace org> Date: Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 6:46 PM Subject: Re: [IP] Re How the Spies Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Fitbit To: L Jean Camp <ljeanc () gmail com> CC: David Farber <dave () farber net> What fascinates me about this anti pattern is whether it would comply with GDPR. My reading of the English, French and German texts is that you have to proactively give consent for the processing of your data. And even if the data are pseudonymised (as happens in one of Strava's modes), you still have to consent. If this passes the GDPR test then companies will trivially be able to "satisfy" the rules through gobbledygook like this. If not, then perhaps the GDPR's hope for "privacy by design" may become common worldwide as EU RoHS rules have. *From:* L Jean Camp <ljeanc () gmail com> *Date:* February 4, 2018 at 5:30:13 PM EST I went through the settings to see how to make Strava use private. This is what I read. To prevent your data being shared by Strava, require seven options on at least three screens, plus the initial "Choose Enhanced Privacy". But "Choose Enhanced Privacy is just a start. Hide Activities From Leaderboards, Change your FlyBy Options without those turned off, even with enhanced privacy on, you will still sometimes post your photo, name & run publicly, and will do so based on the activities of others. Particularly if there are only a few people running a route (*small base cough cough*) so that there is an isolated local Leaderboard. Then there is another screen.... ON Privacy Zones OFF Training Log Sharing OFF Strava Metro & Heatmap Data Sharing after you have turned everything else *off* you need the following *on* or your data will be shared with PII as part of the group. ON Enable Group Activity Enhanced Privacy, ON Followers & Block Athletes "one you've blocked will be able to see your activity entry in public areas like segment leaderboards, club feeds, and segment explore." Blocking *only* means "the blocked athlete will not be able to access your activity or profile page if they click on your entry." So a very pro-stalked feature design there. You choose enhanced privacy. You block someone. Annnnd they can view your "leaderboards, club feeds, and segment explore" which I believe means where you run often that others do not, when you hang with your friends and when you do something new. Of course no one uses these controls correctly. The controls are scattered around, the words "blocked" and "privacy" are argle bargle. ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/18849915-ae8fa580 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=18849915&id_secret=18849915-aa268125 Unsubscribe Now: https://www.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?member_id=18849915&id_secret=18849915-32545cb4&post_id=20180205192445:200354B0-0AD4-11E8-8353-A67FE5C7D459 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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