Investigation
Sold to authoritarian regimes
2021Cellebrite's tools were sold to governments including Belarus, Myanmar, and Russia and used against activists and journalists, prompting later sales restrictions.
UFED
The field device that pulls everything off a seized phone.
The Universal Forensic Extraction Device unlocks and copies data from phones — messages, photos, app data, and locations — and is standard-issue in thousands of US agencies.
What it does
- ▸Logical & physical extraction
- ▸Broad device support
- ▸Deleted-data recovery
- ▸Field-deployable
Where it's deployed
- ◍Thousands of US agencies
Agencies using it
FBIICEDEALocal LE
Abuses & incidents
Sources
- ↳Cellebrite's US law-enforcement footprint — The Intercept, 2021