⚡️📱 FYI - Waze was founded in Israel in 2008 as FreeMap Israel (later acquired by Google). Submitting reports shares your username and location publicly on the app's live map, potentially allowing pattern tracking over time.
Several people who were unaware of this are starting to delete the app.
Here is a testimonial: "I had no idea Waze made me this vulnerable.
They’re an Israeli network, their former name was literally FreeMap Israel before it was Waze.
I was exposing my location public everyday for years.
Bye-bye Waze."
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