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New rules at Saudi Airports!!!

Dearest All,

Please be advised that all Airports in Saudi Arabia have a new rule regarding arriving Overseas workers carrying electronic devices.  This has not been published to the public, but please advice all our Expatriate 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 electronic devices that you are carrying.  This special device can scan all videos and  pictures, jpg, bmp, avi, etc,  contents of your laptop / 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 practice 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 software, movies, or nude pictures.  Even datas that are hidden can be found by this device, so tell them not to bring any at all.  The laptop of one of my friend, a Sony Viao, which cost around 8000/= SR, was confiscated a few days ago, because of 1 semi nude picture that he forgot to erase.

Thanks & Regards..!