Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What to Know About Absher, Saudi Arabia's Controversial 'Woman-Tracking' App Absher, a government-backed mobile app in Saudi ...

The Ministry of Interior’s electronic platform Absher carried out a total of 16,536,826 electronic transactions and services during April. The beneficiaries of these services were users across Absher ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook has pledged to get to the bottom of a Saudi government app hosted on the App Store that was labeled "abhorrent" by a US senator for helping men control where women travel. While ...

The Saudi government app Absher is mostly a way for people to pay traffic fines and complete other administrative tasks electronically. But one feature isn’t sitting well with civil-rights advocates: ...

Tim Cook says that he was unaware of the Absher app, a Saudi-based government app which allows men to track female family members, and even prevent them from travelling, but will investigate. It ...

Saudi Arabian men are defending the controversial government-backed app, Absher, which allows them to “track” female dependents. The free mobile app, which roughly translates to “yes, done,” was ...

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Absher, a government-backed mobile app in Saudi Arabia, has come under sharp criticism amid claims that it reinforces the country’s system of male guardianship — which requires women to seek approval ...