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.
Seems like it is more than women that it endangers potentially. Is there anything in the app that exports information to the outside world only if the user is female ?
This specific case revolves around user’s routes being visible for anyone they physically cross on their way. They don’t need this information in the app because they’ve met them personally.
Besides real names and probably profile images being visible in the app, making it easy to guess the gender.
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.
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
> "So basically if someone sees a woman running alone there's an app they can go to see her name, picture and address"
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.
As someone who is a runner, Strava has ingrained itself as the de facto running and biking social app. You can certainly use other (better) apps for tracking and insights, but there’s no replacement for its community offering. They’ve put themselves in a position that demands better thought and attention to details like this.
I'm just saying it's worth boycotting that app for this (and not just by women). That doesn't mean they shouldn't still be held liable. You can do both.
"A study in the Journal of Applied Physiology found that men had an average of 26 lbs. (12 kilograms) more skeletal muscle mass than women. Women also exhibited about 40 percent less upper-body strength and 33 percent less lower-body strength, on average, the study found."
Just breaking this down so we can map the possibilities and not fall apart into binaries: First, the female gender has, until very recently been literally hobbled and socialized to avoid sweat and any kind of physical efforts. My grandmother wore girdles and her mother wore corsets and they both only wore heels. So, we are new to sport and training and, we are catching up. Give us a century. Second, It depends on how you define stronger: “The hypothesis that the survival advantage of women has fundamental biological underpinnings is supported by the fact that under very harsh conditions females survive better than males even at infant ages when behavioral and social differences may be minimal or favor males.” https://www.pnas.org/content/115/4/E832.full and https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/7b6484fb-3b00-46d6-a5...
This is delusional nonsense. Just because women have better endurance and survival advantages in specific situations like very long distance running and conditions in that paper doesn’t mean they aren’t physically weaker than men by massive margins. And it certainly doesn’t mean that their weaker bodies are due to social conditioning.
