Waze · Governance

Policy Drift Analysis Mixed 4 mo

How Waze's governance documents and clauses have shifted over time, by document, provision, and change direction.

Waze has made 5 significant policy changes since monitoring began in March 2026 (4 mo). 1 was negative for consumers, primarily involving transparency removal.
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Documents Affected

Waze Privacy Policy
4 changes
Waze collects your location and travel data at all times—even when you are not using the app and even in Invisible mode—and saves a complete history of every journey you …
Jul 9, 2026
Waze removed its age restriction requiring users to be 16 or older and instead added a definition of Personal Information in the policy header. The …
medium neutral
+ 3 more changes
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Waze Terms of Use
1 change
These terms give you a free but revocable right to use Waze only for personal, non-commercial purposes, and Waze can cut off your access at any time for any reason. …
Jul 9, 2026
Waze restructured its Terms of Use on July 9, 2026 to reorganize and clarify governance language. The updated terms now reference multiple binding documents (Terms …
medium neutral
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All Changes (5)

Jul 9, 2026
Waze removed its age restriction requiring users to be 16 or older and instead added a definition of Personal Information in the policy header. The policy also removed detailed references …
medium neutral Waze Privacy Policy
Jul 9, 2026
Waze restructured its Terms of Use on July 9, 2026 to reorganize and clarify governance language. The updated terms now reference multiple binding documents (Terms of Use, Content Moderation Policy, …
medium neutral Waze Terms of Use
May 5, 2026
Waze updated its privacy policy on May 5, 2026 to add explicit language about collecting phone numbers from your device's contact book through the 'find friends' feature, and to clarify …
medium neutral Waze Privacy Policy
+ 2 more changes
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Trend Observation

Waze's most frequent change categories are Transparency removal (2), Data collection expansion (2), Disclosure requirement change (1). The most frequently updated document is Waze Privacy Policy with 4 changes. Get alerted when Waze changes policy →

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