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Husbands monitor their life partner with smart technologies...the penalty is imprisonment and a fine

• Fatima Al Ali: "The issues between the spouses began to take different forms than they used to be, due to the development of smart methods and devices."

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Jealousy drives some couples to illegal ways to monitor each other's movements, and sometimes when marital life reaches a dead end, both spouses search for evidence of the other's guilt through smart technologies, especially with the increase in social media advertisements promoting smart devices to determine the geographical location of people and the ability to store these Data, at competitive prices not exceeding 100 dirhams.

These ads entice couples with catchy phrases on social media such as “How do you track your husband or wife via (GPS)?”

In detail, «Emirates Today» monitored advertisements on social media promoting hidden monitoring and tracking devices at attractive prices, and urging spouses to monitor the life partner without his knowledge, while the legal advisor and lawyer, Fatima Al Ali, confirmed that the cases between the spouses began to take different forms than they were. Previously, due to the development of smart methods and devices that support some couples' suspicions, the law was not aware of such practices that some couples follow to search for evidence in incorrect ways, and the law faced these actions with severe penalties for anyone who assaults the privacy of others using an information network.

And she continued that Federal Law No. 34 of 2021 regarding combating rumors and cybercrimes, in Article 44, stipulates that “every person who Whoever uses an information network, electronic information system, or any information technology means, with the intent of attacking a person's privacy or the sanctity of the private or family life of individuals without consent and in cases other than legally authorized by one of the methods, which is eavesdropping, interception, recording or Transmitting, broadcasting, or disclosing conversations, communications, or audio or visual materials.

Al Ali added that the law mentioned that anyone who tracks or monitors the geographical location data of others, or discloses, transfers, discloses, copies or keeps them, is guilty of the Anti-Cybercrime Law, even if he is a husband or wife, pointing out that some couples use tracking devices as property The vehicle belongs to them, and they have the right to put any devices in it, except that the law stipulates that the usufructuary has the right to dispose of the usufruct in the usual manner if the usufruct deed is absolute from every restriction, and the usufructuary is not entitled to monitor it by illegal means for personal purposes.

For his part, the lawyer and legal advisor, Rashid Al-Hafiti, said that modern and smart technologies that rely on violating the privacy of others have social dimensions that may reach the dispersal of the family and the separation of the spouses, especially since their marketing is carried out in ways that entice spouses to infringe on the privacy of the other out of love or jealousy, and the possibility of Obtaining it is available at the click of a button from an international online store or within the country, which made it easier for some couples to achieve their goals that they seek by tracking each other and knowing their geographical locations to search for evidence of their suspicions in incorrect ways by placing monitoring devices in mask boxes or existing tissues. In the vehicle or in other ways so that it is difficult for the other party to know the presence of the device in the vehicle.

He stressed the need to monitor the markets that sell these devices, which differ in their shapes and sizes, and to prevent the availability of these products within the reach of everyone, so as not to be misused and lead people to imprisonment or a fine of up to 500,000 dirhams.

Raising cultural awareness

Lawyer and legal advisor, Rashid Al-Hafiti, stressed the importance of raising cultural awareness among spouses, enhancing the importance of the family's status in them, and introducing social programs on social media and media channels aimed at cohesion of families and seeking to develop positive thinking in them that contribute to solving problems and confronting them in successful and effective ways instead of Resorting to methods that would break up the family and expose its secrets.

He added that the teachings of religion urge spouses to adhere to a basic rule, the principle of which is to hold on to kindness or to dismiss with kindness.

• Husbands resort to using "GPS" to monitor the movements of their "life partner".

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