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How to prevent snoops from stalking you in Waze with ghost drivers

Researchers published paper claiming they can track a Waze drivers exact route using thousands of simulated ghost vehicles in the app. Waze typically broadcasts your location to other nearby drivers, along with your username and how fast youre going. The tracking only works with the Waze app running in the foreground (with the app open), rather than in the background (you can also use invisibility mode to avoid sending your location back to other Waze users.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/04/28/how-to-prevent-snoops-from-stalking-you-in-waze-with-ghost-drivers/

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