"To everyone who comes to the Katarna Championshipworld of football, you need to install spy on your phone
Schneier explains that Ehteraz is a tracking app created due to the coronavirus, while Hayya is the official World Cup app that is used to track match tickets and access the free metro in Qatar.
Ehteraz is requesting access to several rights toyour mobile phone, such as access to read, delete, or modify all phone content, as well as access to WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity and prevent your phone from going to sleep. The app, which must be downloaded by all over 18s visiting Qatar, also gets a number of other accesses, such as checking your exact location, the ability to make direct phone calls, and disabling the screen lock.
The Hayya app asks for roughly the same thing as Ehteraz, but among other things, the app asks foraccess to "virtually unlimited sharing of your personal information."
It is not yet clear whether Qatar will strictly enforce the installation of these applications.