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Saudi Sisters Urge Google and Apple to Pull an ‘Inhuman’ Woman-Tracking App

Two Saudi sisters who fled their country called Wednesday for U.S. tech giants to remove an app which allows men in the Gulf state to monitor their female relatives. The sisters say Apple and Google should pull the app, called Absher, because it supports the country’s harsh male guardianship system, Reuters reports. Maha and Wafa al-Subaei are seeking asylum in the country of Georgia after fleeing what they described as an oppressive society in Saudi Arabia. The sisters said the app is helping to trap Saudi girls in abusive families. “It gives men control over women,” Wafa said of the controversial app.

 

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