A z w e t h i n k w e i z

Dearest All,

Please be advised that all Airports in Saudi Arabia have a new rule regarding departure and arriving Overseas workers carrying electronic devices. This has not been published to the public, but was implemented immediately. Please advise all your workers and friends who are traveling to K.S.A. All Electronic devices will be submitted for check up before immigration section.

Devices includes Cellular phones with camera and memory card, flash disks, external hard drive, Laptops / notebooks / pc, ipod, itouch, mp3 players with memory cards.

A special USB device will be inserted to the electonic devices that you are carrying. This special device can scan all videos and pictures, jpg, bmp, avi, etc, contents of your laptap / cellphones, and will be recorded to their main computer.

All devices with nude pictures in it will be confiscated immediately.

There will be no fines, and refusal will send you to jail and deportation. Laptops with pirated software’s will also be confiscated. This rule has been applied already and is being practiced in Riyadh, Dammam and Jeddah Airports. This is excluding Bahrain airport.

Kindly include this in your orientation with the workers and tell them not to bring any pirated softwares, movies, or nude pictures. Even data that are hidden can be found by this device, so advise them not to bring any at all. The laptap of one of my friends, a Sony Viao, which costs around 8T SR, was confiscated a few days ago, because of 1 semi nude picture that he forgot to erase.

NB: the special device was invented by a Filipino.