Androidpolice said:
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/...ire-for-hosting-saudi-app-for-tracking-women/
Disgusting. They should both pull the app.
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Apple and Google host an app that helps Saudi men track their women
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https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/...ire-for-hosting-saudi-app-for-tracking-women/
Disgusting. They should both pull the app.
Not surprised, I knew Male guardians could update the different authorization and permits via the internet so I guess it makes sense there is an app for it.
Holy fuck that's bad.I love the photo used for the app's login:
The app helps the problem persist. Leaving it up will do more harm in the long run.
Darn, I wanted to see what sort of options there were available in the app but I can't log in or see what kinds of 'civil appointments' there are available. You need a government username/ID and password and hilariously the forgot password link sends you to a youtube video with the comments disabled.
Reminds me of when shit was kicking off in Syria and looking at Assad's wife's Instagram feed was like some bizarro world shitI love the photo used for the app's login:
Gotta keep those slaves in line! Google and apple should be ashamed for hosting such a disgusting tool used to deny women rights.
While I think this might eventually be moved, it annoys me that they clearly don't care about these kinds of apps because it always takes outcry to remove what should be obvious fucking TOS/ethics violations
holy fuck that's disgusting, both platforms need to be taken to task for hosting this
it won't, but this is further enabling that - we're not fixing that mess soon but we can at least stop aiding & profiting from it
it won't, but this is further enabling that - we're not fixing that mess soon but we can at least stop aiding & profiting from it
This app is not about tracking women or anything like that, it's civil affairs app that allow you to access your civil personal informations in order to issue or renew stuff like passport, driver license.... etc, there is nothing in it that allow you to track someone or anyone you know in it. Besides this app have been in the App Store for few years.
I say this because I'm Saudi and I use this app quite often.
I say this because I'm Saudi and I use this app quite often.
Bit from Business Insider: Saudi Arabia runs a huge, sinister online database of women that men use to track them and stop them from running away
The Absher system — little-discussed in Western media — contains a log of women in Saudi Arabia and the means to bar them from travel or catch them trying to leave without permission.
Many of Absher's functions are benign and would not be out of place in any local or national government online portal. You can use it to pay parking fines or renew a driver's license.
Vitally, Saudi men can also use this site to specify when and where women are allowed to fly out of the country and grant or revoke travel permission with a few clicks, rendering specific airports or destinations off-limits.
Men can also enable an automatic SMS feature, which texts them when a woman uses her passport at a border crossing or airport check-in.
The reason al-Mohaimeed waited for the vacation in Turkey is that she would have little chance of escaping from within Saudi Arabia, where borders are integrated with the Absher alert system.
Any attempt to leave would be blocked as soon as her passport was checked at an airport. Even if she were to make it out, she would leave a digital trail making her easy to find.
It sounds like the app is being used maliciously vs the app being made specifically to track Women. For example, the article mentions guardians granting/allowing permissions and privileges. This isn't something out of the ordinary when you think of a parent/child relationship and a parent preventing a child from accessing certain things, but becomes problematic when the guardian is an abusive father or spouse.
I have no idea how much of this app is intentional but smart devices and IoT devices are commonly used by abusers to keep tabs on those they abuse.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/13/...oogle-apple-saudi-arabia-track-women-tim-cook
Update:
Tim Cook says Apple will investigate app that lets Saudi men track and control women
Good to see Apple and the US government taking action against this horrid app.
Update:
Tim Cook says Apple will investigate app that lets Saudi men track and control women
Good to see Apple and the US government taking action against this horrid app.
If not this app, are there not other ways for abusive men to do this? seems like a convenient side effect rather than the clickbaity title that implies the app is specifically designed to track women.
Actually, i see the app was published by saudi government, so I dont doubt that tracking women was a built in feature now.
Actually, i see the app was published by saudi government, so I dont doubt that tracking women was a built in feature now.