Apple and Google accused of helping 'enforce gender apartheid' by hosting Saudi government app that tracks women and stops them leaving the country
Absher, an app which Saudi men use to monitor women's travel and stop them leaving, is available for download on iTunes and the Google Play store.
Avi Asher-Schapiro
12d ago
This isn't getting nearly the attention it deserves: why are Apple & Google hosting a Saudi app that lets men block grown women from traveling & sends
"male guardians" SMS alerts when women cross borders?
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There’s a definite tragedy in the worlds most technologically progressive platforms, @Apple and @Google, facilitating the most archaic misogyny. What irony.
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Google and Apple reportedly host an app that is used in Saudi Arabia to monitor women's movements and bar them from leaving the country. Human rights groups express concerns
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Apple and Google host app (read: spyware) that allows men in Saudi Arabia to track and control where women travel.
Neither Apple nor Google responded to repeated requests for comment.
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Woke Tech isn't that Woke.
"Apple and Google have been accused of helping to "enforce gender apartheid" in Saudi Arabia, by offering a sinister app which allows men to track women and stop them leaving the country."
Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks women ow.ly/RBbf30nFwka
#HumanRightsViolations #DarkAges #TheEvilSideOfIslam
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