‘Egyptian police using gay dating apps to hunt members of LGBT community’
Online dating platforms, such as Grindr, are jeopardising the safety of the conservative Muslim country's homosexual population, according to local lifestyle media.
Egyptian government authorities have reportedly been using gay dating apps to locate and detain members of the LGBT community, according to online lifestyle and entertainment magazine CairoScene, jpost.com reports.
The outlet cited a source close to the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community as claiming that the online dating platforms, such as Grindr, are jeopardising the safety of the conservative Muslim country’s homosexual population, jpost.com reports.
(to the LGBT community in Egypt, if you have an Android phone or a jailbreaked iPhone it’s apps out there that can spoof your location (seems you are somewhere else than you are) so you make it a bit more difficult for the Egyptian government authorities to locate you. And everyone outside Egypt can spoof the GPS so it seems like lot of LGBT around in Egypt – so you put the Egyptian government authorities in big ghost hunt of something that is not there).
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