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Egyptian Dar Al Iftaa warned about the misuse of the Near function in the social media app Telegram, saying that it tracks private parts and violates privacy, which is prohibited by law.
The matter sparked controversy on social media platforms in Egypt, with some questioning the timing and reason behind the identification of this particular app despite the presence of a similar feature in other apps.
He agreed statement Dar Al Iftaa reportedly warned against misusing this feature, which helps users to easily talk to people close to them.
In a statement issued on Saturday, the Egyptian Dar Al Iftaa said that the matter angered many users after receiving disturbing messages and harassment from strangers, and many of them, especially women, expressed their anger at this characteristic, after it was used by some to harass them and speak inappropriately to them. Blackmail point reached
This feature has been present in other applications, and for many years, and is considered fundamental to it.
– Muhammad Hamza Al-Zoubi (@AlzuobiMuhammad) December 19, 2020
In his statement, Dar Al Iftaa called on users of social networking sites to preserve privacy by taking all measures to protect electronic privacy and protect personal data, stating that there are laws that criminalize the violation of electronic privacy of citizens.
The Telegram application after the last update remained in the function called Nearby The function that allows the person close to you to access accounts close to the geographical location and can obtain contact information such as a mobile phone number. This is considered a violation of privacy
– Salama Bassam 🇪🇬 (@ bsalama86) December 19, 2020
In its statement, Dar Al Iftaa considers that the preservation of privacy is an integral part of the purposes of Sharia and human rights, and is included in the broader legal intention. “Keep a show.”
The house affirmed that the penetration of privacy is a color of following the shame that the Sharia has manifested by prohibiting them and cursing the perpetrator and warning him of the dire consequences. The Sharia prohibited espionage.
No privacy violation, Maulana … Every free user runs the function that allows anyone else to see it or not run it … it means that anyone who operates it is in his mood and no one is spying on him and does not violate his privacy nor need … our problem is that #Beautiful
– ahmed eldeeb (@ ahmedeldeeb33) December 19, 2020
The function launched by the Telegram application was the subject of controversy for Egyptians on social networking sites, as it unleashed a wave of anger after the harassment that many were subjected to for the creation of this function, and a hashtag titled: # Dialogue_ Telegram; This is in response to this service.
Telegram, although it is a good and very useful application for us academically, the more it was used in an ugly way and I want the reports to really work, and the addition of the function of finding people close provided a lot of abuse … God have mercy on us
– Mohamed Ashraf (@Mokarpov) December 15, 2020
The Nirby feature allows you to speak to any nearby user in the same geographic circle without the user’s own permission, if the site access feature is enabled on the smartphone.
In his statement, Dar Al-Iftaa emphasized that separating technology from religious morality in particular and humanity in general is something that leads humanity to destruction and harms humanity and urbanism in general, and the house requested what which he called moral rationalization of the use of technology.
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