Lawsuit in Israel against Cellbrite's license to export products to Hong Kong
The claim is that Cellbrite's system helps Hong Kong's police hack into the telephones of demonstrators against the regime
Ami Rojkes Dombe
| 31/08/2020
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We have gotten used to seeing lawsuits in Israel against the NSO company, and now another local cyber company is facing public criticism. A lawsuit filed by attorney Eitay Mack at the Tel Aviv District Court seeks to cancel the Cellbrite company's license to export products to Hong Kong. The lawsuit was filed by Mack on behalf of 60 petitioners against the Defense Ministry, the Foreign Ministry, the defense minister, Defense Exports Control Agency head Racheli Chen, and Cellbrite.
The claim is that Cellbrite's system helps Hong Kong's police hack into the telephones of demonstrators against the regime. "As it will be extensively detailed later, the export of Cellbrite's system to Hong Kong should have been stopped in the beginning of 2019 when the giant wave of demonstrations started and it was clear that a dramatic deterioration was occurring there," the lawsuit says.
According to reports in Hong Kong, during the last year alone Cellbrite's system was used to hack into 4,000 mobile phones of pro-democracy activists and other citizens, who were reportedly arrested.
It seems absurd that Cellbrite, which was acquired in 2007 by a Japanese company named Sun Corporation, is the one that is helping the regime in Beijing take control of Hong Kong again.
Cellbrite declined to comment on this article.
The claim is that Cellbrite's system helps Hong Kong's police hack into the telephones of demonstrators against the regime
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We have gotten used to seeing lawsuits in Israel against the NSO company, and now another local cyber company is facing public criticism. A lawsuit filed by attorney Eitay Mack at the Tel Aviv District Court seeks to cancel the Cellbrite company's license to export products to Hong Kong. The lawsuit was filed by Mack on behalf of 60 petitioners against the Defense Ministry, the Foreign Ministry, the defense minister, Defense Exports Control Agency head Racheli Chen, and Cellbrite.
The claim is that Cellbrite's system helps Hong Kong's police hack into the telephones of demonstrators against the regime. "As it will be extensively detailed later, the export of Cellbrite's system to Hong Kong should have been stopped in the beginning of 2019 when the giant wave of demonstrations started and it was clear that a dramatic deterioration was occurring there," the lawsuit says.
According to reports in Hong Kong, during the last year alone Cellbrite's system was used to hack into 4,000 mobile phones of pro-democracy activists and other citizens, who were reportedly arrested.
It seems absurd that Cellbrite, which was acquired in 2007 by a Japanese company named Sun Corporation, is the one that is helping the regime in Beijing take control of Hong Kong again.
Cellbrite declined to comment on this article.
