7,000 Police Departments using Cellebrite. Reads all phone data on locked phones.

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Baltimore brings back controversial cellphone hacking system

Cellebrite is a dream come true for police surveillance. Plug in any cellphone, even a locked one, and get a full report of every file on its hard drive.

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Plug in any cellphone, even a locked one, and get a full report of every file on its hard drive.

A foreign private firm—Cellebrite is owned by a Japanese company and based in Israel—was given the run of the house on citizens' most sensitive personal information.

Cellebrite, along with its main competitor, Grayshift, is one of the few companies offering this service.

No wonder the Baltimore Police Department, like 6,900 other law enforcement agencies, bought a subscription.

The device works to bypass the "secure enclave," the hardware that prevents a phone's storage from being read while it is locked.

Then the software generates a report, sometimes thousands of pages long, listing all of the information stored on the phone.

"Today, this extraction process is routine and used on countless devices for minor offenses for which a suspect is alleged. This level of easy access has grave impacts on our privacy and civil liberties."

 

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Between Cellebrite, based in Israel, and Elon Musk's X sharing user data with Au10tix an Israeli cyber security company, my only question is when will this country be renamed to "The United States of Israel"?