{
  "id": 17375389,
  "title": "JPA confident civil servants will fully comply with Waze ban",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/31/jpa-confident-civil-servants-will-fully-comply-with-waze-ban-17375389",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-31T08:55:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2026/10/31/jpa-confident-civil-servants-will-fully-comply-with-waze-ban"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On October 21, the government of Malaysia imposed a ban on civil servants using the Waze navigation application. This decision was made to safeguard government information and users' personal data from potential misuse by the Israeli regime, as stated by Putrajaya. The public service department (JPA) is confident that the ban will be fully respected by civil servants. Wan Ahmad Dahlan Abdul Aziz, the director-general of JPA, made this statement at a JPA programme held at SK Kota Baharu. However, the compliance rate has not yet been determined, as the directive was recently announced by the government.",
  "summary": "The public service director-general says Malaysia has 'learned from what happened to other countries that used the application'.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Bernama",
        "title": "General : Waze Ban: JPA Confident Of Full Compliance Among Civil Servants",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/31/general-waze-ban-jpa-confident-of-full-compliance-among-civil-servants",
        "published": "2026-10-31T07:05:51.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}