The "I am not a lawyer" should be in the back of your mind whenever the author talks about the legalities of this software agreement. It is possible to both an

The "I am not a lawyer" should be in the back of your mind whenever the author talks about the legalities of this software agreement. It is possible to both anonymize and aggregate GPS-data to a degree where it is neigh impossible to reverse engineer. The "we provide data to governments when we have a good faith belief that legal standards are met" is boilerplate. From Facebook, to Atlassian to Wordpress.com, all privacy policies have that wording. I found this article to be unfounded and harsh of tone. Google doesn't even need Waze to spy on you. If anything: Google-NSA spying has decreased since the Snowden-revelations. They now actively secure most communications, lobby to be more transparent to their users, and fix security bugs like Heartbleed. All the while keeping their profitable marketing profiles on you (call that spying and the word loses its meaning).