FCC inaction allows Saudis to use U.S. cell networks to spy on its citizens in the states

According to The Guardian, a whistleblower states that the Saudi government is tracking the movement of its citizens across the U.S. using what has been described as powerful mobile spyware. The report states that it is all part of a surveillance campaign run by the Saudi government. The latter is accused of spying on activists and dissidents; Keep in mind that supposedly Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Besides using the spyware, the government also allegedly placed spies inside Twitter to keep an eye on those who have criticized the current regime.
The Saudis were abusing the U.S. cellular network to track the location of certain smartphones
The Guardian was given the opportunity by the whistleblower to view millions of requests to obtain secret tracking information on phones belonging to Saudi citizens visiting the U.S. This amounted to four months worth of requests from the Saudi government that started in November of last year. The requests came from the top three Saudi wireless operators who routed the requests through the Signaling System 7 (SS7) global messaging system.

The Saudi government spied on its own citizens visiting the United States
These are legitimate reasons for requesting this information, such as when a foreign carrier wants to register roaming charges. But in the mobile industry, too many such requests are considered to be a sign of location tracking. And the large number of requests made by Saudi carriers show an interest in finding out the location of their subscribers once they enter the United States. Andrew Miller, a member of Barack Obama's national security council, said that the Saudi's are known for using surveillance to track those who oppose and criticize the government. "I think they are surveilling not only those they know are dissidents, but those they fear may deviate from the Saudi leadership. They are particularly worried about what Saudi nationals will do when they are in western countries."
The requests for tracking information viewed by The Guardian did not show the names of the people being tracked. The three Saudi carriers involved, Saudi Telecom, Mobily, and Zain sent U.S. mobile operators an average of 2.3 million requests per month from November 1, 2019, to March 1, 2020. The phones belonging to the Saudis were being tracked in the U.S. as often as two to 13 times per hour. The data provided the Saudi government could have pinpointed the location of these phones within hundreds of meters of their actual location inside a city.
One senior researcher at the Citizen Lab at the Munk School at the University of Toronto said that the data indicates that foreign agents were "flagrantly abusing" the U.S. cellular network to track smartphones moving through the states.
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