Citizen Lab Finds Cellebrite Tool Used on Kenyan Activist’s Phone in Police Custody Emmie Evans February 18, 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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