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Apple, Google host app that tracks Saudi women, criticised
short by Kanishka Pandey / on Saturday, 9 February, 2019
Apple and Google have been criticised for hosting an app called 'Absher', which reportedly lets Saudi men track women and sends an SMS when a woman uses her passport at the border. Rights activists have sought reconsideration over hosting the app. They've accused the technology giants of "facilitating the most archaic misogyny" and helping the Saudi government enforce "gender apartheid".
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