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Re:U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars by weaksauce on Monday January 26, 2015 @09:37PM (#8950971)
There was an lapd officer(s) that were murdered within the last few days and the murderer used the waze app that shows the reported locations of speed traps and the government is already asking google to prohibit that information in some form. Knee jerk reactions to current events are never going to end well for openness of data.
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Re:U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars by Difwif on Monday January 26, 2015 @10:05PM (#8951030)
Not quite true. There were recent stories that the LAPD commissioner was calling for Waze to remove police tracking from their app. [1] There was a callout of two NYPD officers being killed in December by a shooter that used Waze before the attacks, but did not use it to track their locations leading up to and during shootings.

[1] - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_POLICE_TRACKING_AP...

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Re:U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars by woodman on Monday January 26, 2015 @09:39PM (#8950978)
Knee jerk reactions to anything rarely lead to positive outcomes, transparency is no exception.
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