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The DGT, in favor of limiting Waze or Google Maps and their police notices

The mobile app revolution has changed the world in a matter of years. Beyond how our relationship with computers, social networks, video games, multimedia consumption or mobile photography has changed. One of the types of applications that have changed the most how we relate to our surroundings in Spain and the rest of the world are map applications.

Thanks to them we can not only discover new places, but move with more information on the road. Avoiding traffic jams is one of the most common and useful uses, but there are also others with greater controversy such as radar alerts and police controls, something that is not very funny in the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT).

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The DGT studies what to do with applications such as Waze or Google Maps

Waze is one of the applications preferred by users who spend several hours a day driving. This application not only allows us to reach our destination on the road, but it has also becomea social network of drivers thanks to the notices that each user can create. From road accidents to police checkpoints, something that has already caused problems with the police in the United States in the past, since according to the New York Police Department it assured that criminals could use this function to commit crimes more effectively.

Waze is the leading social driving app.

In his day we commented how, with the current law, the Spanish government was unlikely to end up blocking Waze and Google Maps, which were also beginning to receive these functions, as they were notifications from users. However, in the DGT they think how they can overcome these difficulties.

Despite not being able to ban them in Spain, Pere Navarro, general director of the DGT, has been in favor of«Make it difficult or limit that it is possible to report where there are police on the road».At the moment, this confirmation from the director of the DGT is not an indication that Spain is going to have problems with social driving applications, although with justified causes they could make a request to Google to withdraw the function, as it did without much effect. New York Police.