“The Ehteraz app, which everyone over 18 coming to Qatar must download, also gets a number of other accesses such as an overview of your exact location, the ability to make direct calls via your phone and the ability to disable your screen lock.”
Qatar’s mandatory Covid app asks to read, delete or change everything on your phone, place calls and turn off your screen lock. Every adult visitor has to install it to get in. NRK’s head of security says he wouldn’t bring a phone at all. FIFA sold the tournament. The visitors’ phones came with it.