Apple and Google are being pressed to remove an app that lets men track their wives and daughters in Saudi Arabia. Available to download for free, Absher allows Saudi citizens and residents to access a host of services including getting a passport, a birth certificate or paying traffic violations.

The app also lets men in Saudi Arabia specify when and where to adult women under their "guardianship", including wives and unmarried daughters, are allowed to travel.

An SMS feature sends a message to the male guardian when their wives and unmarried daughters use their passport at a border crossing or the immigration counters at an airport.

This example is from Aljazeera News.

Outrageous by my standards but I don't live in that country either.

However, here in the states there are GPS tracking apps that allow you to locate someone's phone.
While that might prove good for parents it could be a disaster for people in a troubled marriage.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.life360.android.safetymapd&hl=en_US


https://www.trapcall.com/blog/track-phone-number/

https://www.followmee.com/m/default.aspx

https://www.redbytes.in/top-10-best-gps-tracking-apps-for-android/

https://www.netspy.net/5-ways-track-my-wifes-phone-without-her-knowing/

apple has a friendship app
her hubby or her for that matter can pull up a map and see where they are at 24 /7


but keep in mind that is in Saudi Arabia , and things are a lot different for ladys there then just about anywhere else in the world

can track unmarried daughters
sounds like somethen a lot of the dads here in the states would want lol

Australia, Tazmania and New Zealand are home to many unique species of animals and birds. The Tasmanian devil is the world’s largest carnivorous marsupial. Devils are only about the size of a raccoon. But what the species lacks in heft, it makes up for with tenacity. At night, devils hunt and scavenge wallabies, possums, and other small mammals under the cover of their black fur. During the day, they retreat to underground dens and sleep off the rigors of their nighttime exploits.

Thousands of devils suffer from what’s known as devil facial tumor disease. The cancer was first detected in 1996 in eastern Tasmania. Since then, it has spread rapidly across the island state, causing an overall species decline of 80 percent. The facial tumors are a debilitating cancer, spread by contact when Tazmanian devils are eating together, or any other contact.
While the quickly spreading cancer has wrought great devastation, it has also offered scientists a rare window into the progression of cancer at large. Researchers are hopeful that their findings might soon be applied to combatting cancers in other species—maybe even in humans someday.

* Discover Magazine*

Then...


I'm not confused, nope, nope-nope noper?
Not confused at all...

TOM4U - you are too smart to get confused !

Not smart - If I were smart I would be a billionaire!

I don't know about Billionaires, but SOME Millionaires wear old clothes and live on tomatoes and rice, then leave their millions to a housekeeper who was kind to them. ...or they leave it to their faithful DOG.

They have tomatoes with their rice? OMG!
My cat will get all mine...…….

Post Apple II,
Apple products aren't allowed on any
properties I own.

This kind of thing goes to the heart of a much larger concern that we are having to struggle with more and more, in the international corporatist world that we now have to live in.

The basic question is, I think, whether or not we should demand morality from corporations and other organizations set up to gather in business profits or not.

Should profits alone, be what decides what is right and wrong in the world? Should the recognition of differing cultural concepts, mean that people from OUR OWN culture, should be allowed by us to remain in our culture (with whatever benefits and profits come from that), while at the same time, behaving actively within another culture, who's values we may find abhorrent?

Thus we have networking and social platform providers who, in order to be allowed to draw profits from various places (China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia (and other religion-based nations) that use the applications or products to do things that we consider reprehensible, even traitorous to us. China in particular demands that internet businesses that want to profit there, have to assist them in their political monitoring and spying on their own people.

In centuries past, when mechanical industries were the more important, there were many instances of large business concerns who wanted to profit at home, and profit overseas, would be found to selling products that increased the power of potential enemies.

If we do call for morality from American based businesses, where is the line to be drawn?

Good Response

The University of Cambridge in the UK is testing Human anti-cancer drugs that could possibly help treat transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils. If the human meds work, it could save the devils, which are now noted as an endangered species.

Another Goody for your enjoyment;

Although New Orleans continues to draw the largest crowds for its MARDI GRAS celebration, it's NOT the birthplace of Mardi Gras in the U.S. This annual celebration actually started in Mobile, ALABAMA long before it migrated to the Big Easy in Louisiana.

The original Mardi Gras started in 1703 in Mobile when French settlers celebrated at 27 Mile Bluff, the first settlement in the city of Mobile. This celebration was small and unlike what people think of Mardi Gras today. However, in 1711 in Mobile, Mardi Gras included a parade that featured a papier-mâché bull.

* USA Today

That google tracking app was advertised on Match for a time. The sales pitch for that was singles that had signed up in a central area could be crossing paths in their everyday life. If you knew that person was on match, you could track that person down in public. Since it was only up for a short time, I think they could have been held liable if something happened to the person being tracked.

I thought it was a dumb idea the first time I heard about it. Apparently, I wasn't the only one that though so, ether.

it's a terrible idea for abused spouses - and particularly bad in Islamic countries where women cannot even go for groceries without being tracked.

2-15-19 AURORA, Ill. (AP) — An employee of a manufacturing company opened fire at its suburban Chicago plant Friday, killing five people and wounding five police officers before he was fatally shot, police said.
Officers arrived within four minutes of receiving reports of the shooting and were fired upon as soon as they entered the 29,000-square-foot manufacturing warehouse.

*** my note: should employees be allowed concealed carry at work?

There used to be a guy I'd see in different parts on my town, walking. Really tall lanky guy, who was easily recognisable. He alway wore used uniform pants, jackets bought from a local uniform company. He'd cut his own hair was never shaved that well, but he was clean. Lots of people knew him. Always looked like he didn't have much. He only owned controlling interest in our regional airport.

He was a millionaire a couple times over.

Scientists develop first fabric to automatically cool or insulate depending on conditions
Researchers have created a fabric that dynamically regulates heat passing through it
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190207142242.htm
Date:
February 7, 2019
Source:
University of Maryland
Summary:
Researchers have engineered a new fabric from synthetic yarn with a carbon nanotube coating that is activated by temperature and humidity, releasing heat in warm humid conditions and trapping heat when conditions are cool and dry.

Thermal underwear that thinks?

Teens Living in US States Allowing Medical Marijuana Smoke Less Cannabis
Feb. 14, 2019 — According to a large-scale study of American high school students, legalizing medicinal marijuana has actually led to a drop in cannabis use among teenagers.

Beyond romance: Empathy and bonding
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190211164009.htm
Date:
February 11, 2019
Source:
University of California - Santa Barbara
Summary:
Love can make us do crazy things. It often prompts us to behave in counterintuitive ways, like, for example, placing the wellbeing of our loved ones above our own. But why?

How your smartphone is affecting your relationship
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190211140046.htm
Date:
February 11, 2019
Source:
University of Arizona
Summary:
The allure of smartphones, and how they impact our interpersonal relationships, might be the result of our evolutionary history, according to researchers.

Shameful secrets bother us more than guilty secrets
People who feel shame more likely to constantly think about their secrets, study says
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190211095453.htm
Date:
February 11, 2019
Source:
American Psychological Association
Summary:
Everyone has secrets, but what causes someone to think about them over and over again? People who feel shame about a secret, as opposed to guilt, are more likely to be consumed by thoughts of what they are hiding, according to new research.

Oral contraceptives could impair women's recognition of complex emotions
Healthy women who use birth control pills are poorer judges of subtle facial expressions than non-users, according to new research
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190211083216.htm
Date:
February 11, 2019
Source:
Frontiers
Summary:
Women who take the pill are nearly 10 percent worse at recognizing subtle expressions of complex emotions like pride or contempt, according to new research. Previous research suggests the relationship is causal, but the impact on women's ability to form intimate relationships is unknown.

Delays in banning wildlife trade put hundreds of species at risk
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190214153123.htm
Date:
February 14, 2019
Source:
Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Summary:
From parrots to lizards, hundreds of animal species could be at risk of extinction because of a policy process that responds slowly to scientific knowledge, according to a new study.

'Old' sperm produces healthier offspring
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190214084646.htm
Date:
February 14, 2019
Source:
University of East Anglia
Summary:
Research shows that sperm that live for longer before fertilizing an egg produce healthier offspring. What's more, these offspring go on to have longer, healthier lifespans -- and in turn produce more and healthier offspring themselves. It was assumed that it doesn't matter which sperm fertilizes an egg. But this shows that there are massive differences between sperm and how they affect offspring. The research was carried out in zebrafish but may have implications for human fertility.

Cannabis use in teens linked to risk of depression in young adults
Cannabis use among adolescents is found to be associated with increased risk of depression and anxiety in adulthood
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190213172307.htm
Date:
February 13, 2019
Source:
University of Oxford
Summary:
Cannabis is the most commonly used recreational drug by teenagers worldwide. In Canada, among youth aged 15 to 19 years, the rate of past-year cannabis use is 20.6 percent, while in England, 4 percent of adolescents aged 11 to 15 years used cannabis in the last month.

Future of US citrus may hinge on consumer acceptance of genetically modified food
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190213124448.htm
Date:
February 13, 2019
Source:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Summary:
A tiny insect, no bigger than the head of a pin, is threatening to topple the multibillion-dollar citrus industry in the US by infecting millions of acres of orchards with an incurable bacterium called citrus greening disease. The battle to save the citrus industry is pitting crop producers and a team of agriculture researchers against a formidable brown bug, the Asian citrus psyllid, which spreads the disease.