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January 27, 2015

Cops want Waze mobile traffic app disabled

  • Fifty million users in 200 countries turn to Waze for warnings about congestion, accidents, speed traps, traffic cameras, construction zones and potholes.
    • By EILEEN SULLIVAN
    Associated Press

    WASHINGTON — Law enforcement is concerned that the popular Waze mobile traffic app by Google Inc., which provides real-time road conditions, can also be used to hunt and harm police.

    Waze is a combination of GPS navigation and social networking. Fifty million users in 200 countries turn to the free service for warnings about nearby congestion, car accidents, speed traps, traffic cameras, construction zones, potholes, stalled vehicles or unsafe weather conditions.


     
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