Re: [liberationtech] Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women

I wonder if a simple SMS denial of service tool could be written to counter this? I.E. if a woman is leaving and wants to ensure that the "tracking" SMS does not get received until her plane is wheels-up, she could set the tool to spam her husband's phone with as many SMS messages as it is capabl

Re: [liberationtech] Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women

Thanks, Eva! NK On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Eva Galperin wrote: > http://riyadhbureau.com/blog/2012/11/saudi-women-tracking > -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women

The AFP misses a couple of key points. I recommend reading this blog post by Ahmed Al Omran, a journalist living in Saudi Arabia. Prior to returning to Saudi, Ahmed worked for Andy Carvin at NPR. http://riyadhbureau.com/blog/2012/11/saudi-women-tracking "Reporting on the uproar, AFP described it

Re: [liberationtech] Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women

I couldn't believe this was true and actually had to look it up in different news sources in order to believe it (found it in AFP, seems legit.) This is stupendous. NK On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Brian Conley wrote: > I would be interested to know whether this system involves any automat

Re: [liberationtech] Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women

I would be interested to know whether this system involves any automated tracking, such as a database of SIMs that are updated by default via SMS when the relevant women's SIM passes immigration, etc. It seems likely it is simply a database registry, cross referencing contact information of male g

[liberationtech] Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/22/saudi-arabia-implements-electronic-tracking-system-for-women RIYADH --- Denied the right to travel without consent f