{"id":653859,"date":"2026-10-22T13:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/653859\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:58:11","slug":"waze-rejects-malaysias-data-risks-claims-after-civil-servants-barred-from-the-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/653859\/","title":{"rendered":"Waze rejects Malaysia\u2019s data risks claims after civil servants barred from the app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia &#8212; Waze on Thursday rejected Malaysia&#8217;s claims that it collects sensitive government information or allows any entity to exploit personal user data, after the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/malaysia-israel-waze-ban-67747618e9bc6d9cf4d3d8255c6247b9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">government banned<\/a> civil servants from using the navigation app, citing its Israeli connection. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim\u2019s office in a statement Wednesday said the decision took into account the status of Waze Mobile Limited as a data controller incorporated in Israel and operating under Israeli law. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A Waze spokesman described the allegations of compromising personal data as \u201ccompletely false.\u201d He did not comment on any Israeli connections. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cWaze operates under strict privacy policies that protect user data and comply with global legal data protection standards,\u201d the spokesman said, in a response to The Associated Press. Waze was developed in Israel before it was bought by U.S. tech company Google in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Predominantly Muslim Malaysia is a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause and has no diplomatic or direct economic ties with Israel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo told Parliament on Thursday that the ban on Waze applies only to public servants carrying out official duties. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia &#8212; Waze on Thursday rejected Malaysia&#8217;s claims that it collects sensitive government information or allows&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[114,122,42,43,2842,7319,7130,125,40,38,41,39,126],"class_list":["post-653859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-business","tag-general-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-privacy","tag-religion","tag-software","tag-technology","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}