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Re:Waze: Google’s New Spying Tool by wongarsu on Monday February 16, 2015 @01:48PM (#9058449)
In this context it's worth noting that Waze is available in Europe too. And contrary to the US, in Europe you generally have an expectation of privacy even in public and on public property.

Of course you can give that privacy up voluntarily, but I don't think being tracked on your daily commute would sit well with most people over here.

Re:Waze: Google’s New Spying Tool by cwang912 on Monday February 16, 2015 @02:32PM (#9058723)
I totally get why people don't want to be tracked, even on public roads, but the transportation engineering/urban planning part of me feels like the (anonymized) data would be FANTASTIC for transportation agencies who spend time/money on getting similar but less accurate data through surveys.

I considered trying to figure out if people could voluntarily submit their trip/GPS data (also anonymized) to agencies instead of the traditional survey but have little idea how to do that kind of stuff.