When Google’s GPS navigation app Waze became popular in Brazil, it was used primarily as a network to avoid police controls. Waze offers turn-by-turn navigation to users and drivers, compiling up-to-the-minute traffic, weather, and mapping data thanks to crowdsourced user input. The tech giant had inadvertently created the perfect system to keep reckless drivers informed of police operations targeting drunk driving. Now, however, the same...
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