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Big tech’s anti-democracy endeavours overseas and why you should be worried
Firms like Apple and Google are dangerously becoming the Great Inquisitor and censor of our era, says JULIAN VIGO

LAST month, Apple and Google were put under intense public pressure to remove an app hosted on their platforms.

This app, launched in 2015 by the Saudi Arabian government, Absher, tracks the whereabouts of women, allowing men to control the women whose guardianship they handle. 

More specifically, this app enables men to log the names and document identification numbers (eg passports) of women thus setting up a profile for how many journeys they are allowed to make, how long they may travel and what medical procedures they are allowed to undertake, if at all.

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