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Re:Google siding with Saudi Arabia, refuses to remove govern... by pintxo on Saturday March 02, 2019 @06:07PM (#19291692)
Actually read an article where the app was helping the daughter to escape: she stole Daddy’s phone and that way he did not get any notifications and she could approve her own leaving the country!
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Re:Google siding with Saudi Arabia, refuses to remove govern... by diebeforei485 on Saturday March 02, 2019 @06:11PM (#19291708)
Those are SMS messages, not app notifications delivered via Google/Firebase Cloud Messaging (or Apple Push Notification Service on Apple platforms).

But yes, it would have been much harder without the app, because the old system would have required her dad to appear in-person, wet-sign specific paper forms, etc.

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Re:Google siding with Saudi Arabia, refuses to remove govern... by pintxo on Sunday March 03, 2019 @03:40PM (#19296710)
> In order to flee, Nourah used her father’s phone to give herself permission to travel, disabled his notifications and flew to Turkey. From there she traveled to Georgia, then bought a ticket to Australia via the United Arab Emirates, although she feared that the Emirati government would catch her in transit and return her to Saudi Arabia.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/world/middleeast/saudi-ar...

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