Purchase records and docs show that 14 of the 15 US Cabinet departments and several other federal agencies bought Cellebrite phone hacking tools in recent years
Among our findings: the day before the Commerce Department blacklisted NSO Group, a DC lobbying firm registered to lobby on behalf of the Israeli phone cracker outfit Cellebrite. https://theintercept.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Great new piece from @samfbiddle and @MaraHvistendahl at @theintercept about growing government cellphone hacking. It's 8 years since the Supreme Court held cellphone searches are one of the most invasive acts imaginable, but the abuse continues to grow. https://theintercept.com/…
NEW: When Cellebrite went public last August, @samfbiddle and I noticed that they claimed to have sold phone-cracking tech to nearly every U.S cabinet department. We confirmed those contracts - and found some other unsettling ones. https://theintercept.com/...
“We can't allow every federal department to turn into its own spy agency.” STOP's @FoxCahn in @theintercept report on @USFWS use of Cellebrite surveillance tech. @MaraHvistendahl @samfbiddle https://theintercept.com/...
“Across the federal government, agencies that don't use Cellebrite technology are increasingly the exception, not the rule.” https://theintercept.com/...