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NYPD Demands Removal of DUI Checkpoints From Waze App, Google Refuses

posted by martyb on Friday February 08 2019, @03:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the where-there's-a-will-there's-a...waze dept.

takyon writes:

NYPD asks Google to scrap Waze's DUI checkpoints

The NYPD has sent Google a cease-and-desist letter, asking it to axe a Waze feature that allows users to mark cops' locations on the navigation app. Based on the letter first seen by Streetsblog NYC and CBS New York, authorities believe the feature is making it harder to enforce the law and keep the roads safe. The NYPD sent the cease-and-desist just a couple of weeks after Waze debuted speed camera notifications, but the cops' letter mostly focused on the fact that the ability allows users to give each other a heads-up about sobriety checkpoints.

[...] [Based] on the statement it provided to NYT, [Google] doesn't have any intention to give in to the NYPD's demand. It told the publication that safety is a top priority for the company and that "informing drivers about upcoming speed traps allows them to be more careful and make safer decisions when they're on the road."

Also at Gizmodo.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by takyon on Friday February 08 2019, @04:32AM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday February 08 2019, @04:32AM (#798155) Journal

    Remember that time when the FBI got Apple to unencrypt phones to protect against da terrorists?

    Oh wait, it didn't work and the FIB's months-long PR campaign amounted to nothing.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 08 2019, @04:46AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 08 2019, @04:46AM (#798160)

    The NYPD does not have to worry about anything. Short term yeah kind of a pain.

    But long term google will get bored with it and shut it down. They are a one trick pony. It is a hell of a pony. But one trick none the less.

    Remember how google was going to be the next ISP. Me too. But here I sit in a city that sells it and I can not buy it. One guy I know all the neighbors on all sides of him can get it. Yet he has been trying for 4 years now. They even are closing out a town today. Because they munched it that badly.

    They have good engineers there. They probably even make good stuff. But they seem to have ADHD for any sort of long term goals.