Accusations of the Saudi Telecom Company of spying on its customers

The Saudi Telecom Company “stc” called on its users to link their “stc pay” electronic wallet to their Twitter accounts.

The company explained that this procedure helps it provide the best service to its customers, without further explanation.

Activists, in turn, accused the telecommunications company of spying on citizens, saying that linking the account to “Twitter” means access to activists’ information and thus providing the authorities with it, which may cause harm to them.

The Saudi authorities arrested many activists on the background of tweets criticizing the situation and the current approach of the Kingdom, and it is noteworthy that many of the detainees were writing with fake names, but the authorities were able in various ways to obtain their identities.

The most prominent of those accounts, an account called “Kashkool”, media said that the authorities accused the prominent writer Turki Al-Jasser of standing behind him, and arrested him in March 2018, and there were many reports of his death in mysterious circumstances inside the prison.

The Saudi government is accused of using employees, some of them Saudis, inside the “Twitter” company to obtain information about opposition activities abroad.

The Kingdom is using its strong relationship with the UAE to benefit from the information at the Twitter regional office in .

These were the details of the news Accusations of the Saudi Telecom Company of spying on its customers for this day. We hope that we have succeeded by giving you the full details and information. To follow all our news, you can subscribe to the alerts system or to one of our different systems to provide you with all that is new.

It is also worth noting that the original news has been published and is available at saudi24news and the editorial team at AlKhaleej Today has confirmed it and it has been modified, and it may have been completely transferred or quoted from it and you can read and follow this news from its main source.

NEXT Kingdom’s deputy minister for political affairs discusses developments in the Middle East with Japan’s peace envoy