Google urged to remove satnav alerts about speed traps and garda checkpoints

Regulations introduced in 1991 prohibited the use of any device which is capable of being used to indicate the existence of, or to frustrate the operation of speed detecting devices.

Google is facing calls to remove satnav location alerts about random speed traps and garda checkpoints amid concerns that the alerts could help reckless drivers and criminals evade detection.

Oliver Moran, a Green Party city councillor in Cork, and a software engineer, has written to the tech giant expressing his concerns about the real-time alerts on Google’s satnav subsidiary, Waze.