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Russia used Cellebrite tool to jail activist after the company claimed to have ended contract
- Occurred
- Jun 25, 2026
- Published
- Jun 25, 2026
- Source
- Access Now
Summary
A Citizen Lab investigation confirms evidence Russian authorities used Cellebrite tool to hack prominent Russian activist Andrey Pivovarov after the Cellebrite claimed to have ceased sales to Russia. The post Russia used Cellebrite tool to jail activist after the company claimed to have ended contract appeared first on Access Now.
Tags
- Andrey Pivovarov
- Business & Human Rights
- Cellebrite
- Citizen Lab
- digital security
- Russia
- The Citizen Lab
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Unauthorized surveillance and data extraction used to target and jail an activist violates privacy rights.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8