Saudi Arabia is hunting down women who flee country via their IMEI number

But according to multiple sources who spoke with INSIDER, this is what has been happening in Saudi Arabia’s quest to track down the growing number of women who flee the country every year. Micah Lee, a computer security engineer and journalist, told INSIDER “it would be trivial for Saudi Arabia, as well as any other country, to track someone’s physical location if they know the IMEI number of their target’s phone.” Read more: Saudi Arabia runs a huge, sinister online database of women that men use to track them and stop them from running away
“Putting a new SIM into a phone will change its IMSI number, but the phone will still have the same IMEI number, so cellphone companies can easily see that these different SIM cards are being used in the same phone,” he said.

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