Citizen Lab Finds Cellebrite Tool Used on Kenyan Activist’s Phone in Police Custody

23:00 - 18 Feb 2026

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