Much like drivers can help their fellow commuters take a-smooth ride home-by reporting accidents and ticket traps with popular mapping application Waze, citizens in Iran are using a new smartphone app to help others avoid another kind of police encounter. This week, an anonymous group of developers released-Gershad, an Android app that allows users to report locations of Iran’s Gasht-e-Ersha, which functions as morality police across the country, in major cities including Tehran and Mashad. -With the crowdsourced information, Iranians can plan alternate routes to avoid a fine or even arrest. The developers’ biggest motivation was helping out Iranian women, who are often targeted for not wearing their hijab properly.



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