New Airport Rules in Saudi Arabia
Posted by REMF on 19 July, 2009
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Saudi Arabia Airports has set a new aviation rules on arriving passenger with electronic devices coming in their country . please be informed that this rules has been started.
Electronic devices will be submitted for check up:
- Devices such as Mobile phones with camera, data storages, Computer Desktops, Laptops, MP3 players with memory cards.
- A special gadget will be inserted to the said devices to check and scan files and software’s that are illegal and pornographic photos and will be recorded on their main computer
- All devices with illegal software’s and pornographic pictures will be immediately confiscated.
- No fines will be charge, however, refusing to give the device will send you to jail and deportation.
This rules has already been applied and tested in Saudi Arabia Airports at Riyadh , Dammam and Jeddah.
Please check all you files in all of your devices before going to the said country. Do not make them as hidden files. The gadgets can also detect files that are hidden.
Have a safe trip.
3 Comments on “New Airport Rules in Saudi Arabia”
any confirmed reports regarding this news?
I just travelled into Riyadh with a computer, cell phone and all the other naughty bits and my luggage wasn’t even scanned or x-rayed and I sailed through.
The Saudi airport authorities are so busy trying to implement biometric entry requirements that I can’t see how they’d even attempt to look at individual PCs.
to repeat, the ONLY WAY a computer can be checked for inappropriate content is for a human being to sit there and look at all the photos and watch all the videos. scanning software can FIND all the photos & videos on your computer but it can’t work out which ones are legal and which are illegal.
the fastest of equipment will take around 2 hours of time to just copy files from a 320 gb hard disk drive. and it will take around 5 hours for checking.
are the rules applicable only for those persons who arrived in the kingdom or include also the boarding passengers???? if these rules applies in both ways how long will it take for each person to passed the checking if he bring a LAPTOP of any gadgets that can store file , photo and picture?????
thanks and Merry Christmas