Strongest: User Control
65/100
Waze is strongest where users can still manage account, history, and deletion choices through a familiar Google-style control layer.
Waze is a Google product, reviewed for navigation, location, reports, and community data, Google account data, sharing, tracking, retention, and controls.
50
Weak
50
Weak
Waze gives users decent controls, but location sharing and Google-linked data still make it a high-sensitivity navigation surface.
Waze is strongest where users can still manage account, history, and deletion choices through a familiar Google-style control layer.
Its weakest area is data sharing, because routes, location signals, and linked Google account data can move through a wider ecosystem than drivers expect.
45
Weak
Waze data can still be processed to provide, secure, improve, and personalize Google services depending on settings and account type.
Google provides account and product controls for activity, personalization, export, and deletion.
45
Weak
Data can flow through Google services, administrators, connected apps, legal requests, service providers, and user sharing.
Google documents privacy controls and says it does not sell personal information.
35
Poor
Google processes device, usage, cookie, account, activity, and product-specific telemetry.
Users or admins can manage key privacy, history, sharing, and account settings.
60
Mixed
Retention depends on account type, legal duties, backups, admin policy, and product configuration.
Google provides export, deletion, and account-management tools.
65
Mixed
Controls are spread across product settings, Google Account, and Workspace or organization administration.
Users or admins can manage sharing, activity, export, deletion, and product settings.
Privacy Policy
Open: support.google.comPolicies Privacy Page
Open: policies.google.com1. Controls
Waze data can still be processed to provide, secure, improve, and personalize Google services depending on settings and account type.
2. Retention
Google provides account and product controls for activity, personalization, export, and deletion.
Founded
Sep 1998
Founder
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Parent Company
Lifecycle
Active
Category
Consumer Platforms & Social
CEO
Sundar Pichai
Security Team
Security Team
Date Added
06-10-2026
