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    Revealed: Saudis suspected of phone spying campaign in US

    Exclusive: Whistleblower’s data suggests millions of tracking requests sent over four-month period
    by Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington Mar 29, 2020 4 minutes
    Saudi mobile phones were being tracked as often as 13 times per hour as they travelled through the US, the data appears to suggest. Photograph: Westend61/Getty Images

    Saudi Arabia appears to be exploiting weaknesses in the global mobile telecoms network to track its citizens as they travel around the US, according to a whistleblower who has shown the Guardian millions of alleged secret tracking requests.

    Data revealed by the whistleblower, who is seeking to expose vulnerabilities in a global messaging system called SS7, appears to suggest a systematic spying campaign by the kingdom, according to experts.

    The data suggests that millions of secret tracking requests emanated from Saudi Arabia over a four-month period beginning in November 2019.

    The tracking requests, which sought to establish

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