Google vil ikke fjerne kontroversiel saudi-arabisk app

Hygsomt :P

App'en findes tilsyneladende også i Apple Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app//id1004966456?mt=8

#2 Hvilket også er nævnt i nyheden, samt at Apple vil undersøge sagen.

Et andet perspektiv på sagen. Fra en FB bekendt:

This is not just fake news, it is bullshit news.
First , the app Absher is free. Second, there is no tracking whatsoever. [Wife's name] left with [Child] in January from Riyadh and I received no notification.
The app simply allows Saudis and foreign residents to process government documents online, rather than go to various government offices and wait in endless lines processing matters.
For example, I can renew [child] Saudi visa remotely through the app in seconds rather go to the passports office.
I can apply for the kids’ passports in second too and get the passports delivered within a couple of days or just go by and pick them up.
I can check if I have traffic fines and pay them.
Absher is an amazing service that has no equivalent in the US.
I think that this story stems from a misunderstanding. Like minors, women in Saudi still need male guardians, which is a matter that seems will change like the old ban on women driving. There have been various reforms that have relaxed some of these guardian rules. I hope these continue.
One of the male guardian rules is a prohibition on women leaving Saudi without their guardian’s permission. Men used to have to get such permissions by taking a few hours to go to a government office. With Absher, it takes seconds.
I provide [Wife's name] a blanket permission to leave at any time on her passport and national ID card. I recently renewed [Wife's name] ID card and forgot to renew her travel permission. When she tried to leave at the airport, they stopped her because she did not have a permission to leave. [child] let me know, there was no notice sent to me. I renewed the permission in less than a minute and [Wife's name] flew out on time. Without Absher, [Wife's name] would have missed her flight and I would have missed a few hours of work the next day while getting a permission at the passports office.
If anything, Absher makes it easier to provide the permission and thereby increases such permissions. Less hassle.
If people want to attack the male guardian law, they can do so. But Absher only provides people the opportunity to improve women’s lives here. Enough with the lies about a technology that has no US equivalent or peer.

Jeg har fornyligt set en dokumentar omkring kvinder det ønskede at flygte fra Saudi Arabien mod deres "værges" tilladelse.

Denne app gjorde det faktisk nemmere for dem, da de bare behøvede at "låne" deres værges mobil et øjeblik og opdatere deres lov til at rejse i stedet for at skulle have falske papirer fremskaffet osv.

Så selv om vi alle er enige i at det ikke i orden an voksen kvinde ikke må rejse som hun har lyst uden tilladelse, så gør denne app det faktisk nemmere for dem.

#4, #5

Jep, det var også meget åbenlyst fra en større reddit discussion om samme app i sidste uge.

Dette her er et klassisk eksempel af "don't kill the messenger".

#6

Man taler ofte om at sætte strøm på en eksisterende process.

Og her kan man vel tale om at sætte strøm på en eksisterende undertrykkende process.

#7: enig

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#2 Hvilket også er nævnt i nyheden, samt at Apple vil undersøge sagen.

Haha ja det kan jeg godt se nu. Min fejl. :-)
Det må jeg have overset (eller er det blevet tilføjet senere?)