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by notkaiho 2221 days ago
Well, yes, but also that Strava takes this hands-off approach like they're not responsible for the data they collate
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What should strava do? Ask each country in the world which areas they want censored?(nuclear power plants, parliament buildings, boarding schools for rich kids, ...?)
Pretty sure that’s how it will end up being, eventually, in the same way GoogleMaps had to buckle.

I can see the smartest countries providing a standard webservice: you-private-company-using-geolocation will have to query a certain area, and get back a shape that you must blur or otherwise suppress. Access to the service should be heavily logged / throttled to avoid mass-scanning, and obviously “customers” will be vetted and forced to sign onerous NDAs. You don’t like the service constraints? Tough shit, here is a law that says use it or be fucked.

How about a "dont record where you shouldn't" clause in TOS... probably there already is one...
Or, you know, they could not make it public by default :)