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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 28 2015, @12:41AM
In Virginia as well, nearly 40 years ago, I was on the rise of a hill on the interstate.
The cop was on the downhill side.
My FuzzBuster (in a kleenex box on my dash) -did- pick up his radar and I backed down my speed before he had a visual on me.
A guy passed me and that was the guy the cop stopped.
Regulation of radio receivers is a federal matter.
I'm surprised this state-level prohibition hasn't been nullified by a federal court.
-- gewg_