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Waze/Controversies

Waze controversies

Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.

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  1. 2019Waze Live Map information-disclosure vulnerabilities
  2. 2016Crowdsourced traffic and user-tracking vulnerability
  3. 2014Police-location feature controversy
  4. 2014FreeMap and RoadMap intellectual-property lawsuit

  1. 2019

    Waze Live Map information-disclosure vulnerabilities

    Security researcher Peter Gasper reported vulnerabilities in the web-based Live Map that could expose a driver identifier and enable partial recovery of a related username. Google acknowledged and fixed the issues and paid a bug bounty.

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  2. 2016

    Crowdsourced traffic and user-tracking vulnerability

    University of California, Santa Barbara researchers reported that weaknesses in Waze’s location authentication could allow software-generated accounts to create false congestion events and observe nearby users. The work raised concerns about manipulation of traffic data and driver privacy.

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  3. 2014

    Police-location feature controversy

    Police officials, including the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, argued that the ability to display reported police locations could expose officers to danger. Waze defended the feature as a potential road-safety aid. An alleged connection between the feature and a 2014 attack on New York police officers was reported but was not substantiated.

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  4. 2014

    FreeMap and RoadMap intellectual-property lawsuit

    A class-action complaint alleged that Waze improperly used open-source mapping code and data associated with FreeMap and the RoadMap project. The case was dismissed in 2017, and the Israeli Supreme Court issued a final dismissal in 2019.

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