Test for homegrown digital solutions

THE recent government directive restricting public sector personnel from using Waze over cybersecurity and data security concerns has sparked widespread debate. While critics might dismiss the policy as an unnecessary hassle for a routine commute tool, doing so overlooks the broader mechanics of national security.

When tens of thousands of civil servants moving daily between government ministries, critical infrastructure and high-level policy meetings continuously stream real-time location histories, route patterns and behavioural telemetry through foreign-hosted servers, the aggregated data creates a vivid blueprint of state activity.