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Citizen Lab Finds Cellebrite Tool Used on Kenyan Activists Phone in Police Custody - Stanley - Feb 27, 2026
Citizen Lab Finds Cellebrite Tool Used on Kenyan Activist’s Phone in Police Custody
New research from the Citizen Lab has found signs that Kenyan authorities used a commercial forensic extraction tool manufactured by Israeli company Cellebrite to break into a prominent dissident's phone, making it the latest case of abuse of the technology targeting civil society.
The interdisciplinary research unit at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public
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