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The US National Sheriffs' Association wants Google to block its crowd-sourced traffic app Waze from being able to report the position of police officers, saying the information is putting officer's lives at risk.
"The police community needs to coordinate an effort to have the owner, Google, act like the responsible corporate citizen they have always been and remove this feature from the application even before any litigation or statutory action," AP reports Sheriff Mike Brown, the chairman of the NSA's technology committee, told the association's winter conference in Washington.
Waze, founded in 2008 and purchased 18 months ago by Google for $1.1bn, has about 50 million users who anonymously share their locations to help gauge road traffic flows. The app also allows police reports and road closures to be added to maps and shared with other users.
Brown called the app a "police stalker," and said being able to identify where officers were located could put them at personal risk. Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, said his members had concerns as well.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/26/nsa_gunning_for_google_wants_copspotting_taken_off_waze_app/
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 28 2015, @12:06AM
Ohio is an open-carry state.
If the toy gun had instead been a real weapon loaded with real bullets, the dude would have been within his rights to possess it pretty much anywhere in that state.
He was murdered by racist cops in a racist city because of the color of his skin.
The racist jerk that called it in and lied about the facts is culpable as well.
The 12 year old who was shot within seconds of the racist cop showing up on the scene didn't stand a chance either.
-- gewg_