All Malaysian civil servants have been barred from using the navigation application Waze with immediate effect.
The directive was issued via a circular dated 20 October 2026, as sighted by SoyaCincau.com. Signed by Chief Secretary to the Government (KSN) Tan Sri Shamsul Azri Abu Bakar, the ban follows a decision made during the National Cybersecurity Committee (JKSN) Meeting No. 3/2026.
The meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, resolved to implement the ban due to concerns over Waze’s ties to Israel. While PM Anwar highlighted the JKSN meeting in a Facebook post yesterday, he did not explicitly mention the civil service ban on Waze, which became a subsidiary of Google after it was acquired in 2013.
