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?

Holy shit. businessinsider.com/apple-google-c… pic.twitter.com/jwfoh92m4o

There’s a definite tragedy in the worlds most technologically progressive platforms, @Apple and @Google, facilitating the most archaic misogyny. What irony. @thisisinsider on gender apartheid app in #SaudiArabia

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

Google and Apple are hosting an app that allows Saudi men to track their wives and even stop them leaving the country. Four days after publishing this story, Google and Apple haven't even acknowledged our requests for comment. Their silence is deafening.

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. businessinsider.com/apple-google-c… pic.twitter.com/xwz5Wd6TiA

Case in point.

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."