羅冠聰發起國際聯署 要求以色列公司 Cellebrite 停止助警方破解抗爭者手機
立場報道
2020/7/18
警方在反修例運動中常沒收被捕者手機作調查證物，前香港眾志常委羅冠聰於 Facebook 發文，指警方是透過以色列公司 Cellebrite 破解手機內容，並建立針對示威者的「情報網」，他擔心《港區國安法》下警方權力更大，巿民私隱更不受保障，他因而發起聯署，要求 Cellebrite 停止為香港警察提供破解手機服務。
《港區國安法》條文下，警方有權搜查可能存有犯罪證據的電子設備，對涉嫌違法者進行截取通訊和秘密監察。羅冠聰表示，香港的國安、警察、特務在國安法下有凌駕法律的權力，認為在不需搜查令下沒收疑犯電子儀器，令所有香港人的私隱暴露在危險中，又指國安法的罪名模糊不清，質疑這些科技公司是為中共暴政服務，協助將追求民主、自由的香港人「送中」。
羅冠聰在帖文中指，為保護「手足」的數碼安全，他發起了要求 Cellebrite 停止為香港警察提供破解手機服務的聯署，呼籲香港人落力聯署，他說，期望 Cellebrite 在國安法嚴重侵犯市民人權的時候，能避免成為極權的幫兇。
聯署呼籲發出半天後，已有過萬人簽署。
前香港眾志秘書長黃之鋒曾於 Facebook 發帖文指，他在 2 月警方提交的法律文件中，發現警方用以色列軟件「Cellebrite UFED Physical Analyzer」和瑞典軟件「MSAB XRY」，成功破解他的 iPhone XR，取得手機密碼及當中的所有圖片。
羅冠聰於《港區國安法》通過前離開香港，現身在英國，他表示會於外地延續「國際戰線」，不知歸期。
【✍️聯署師召集：要求以色列公司停止為港警破解手機】
過去反送中運動以來，黑警沒收數千部抗爭者電話，並透過以色利Cellebrite公司破解手機內容建立針對示威者的「情報網」。
然而，國安法陰霾下，香港的國安、警察、特務更有凌駕法律的權力，在不需搜查令下沒收疑犯電子儀器，令所有香港人的私隱曝露在危險中，加上「煽動顛覆國家政權」、「非法提供國家秘密或者情報」、「勾結外國勢力」等罪名模糊不清，令人質疑這些科技公司正正為中共暴政服務，協助將追求民主、自由的香港人「送中」。
因此，我發起了要求Cellebrite停止為香港警察提供破解手機服務的聯署，希望Cellebrite在國安法嚴重侵犯市民人權的時候，避免成為極權的幫兇。
請各位香港人落力聯署，保護手足的數碼安全。
Petition: Calling upon Cellebrite to terminate phone-hacking cooperations with Hong Kong Police
Earlier this month, Beijing has unilaterally imposed a sweeping national security law upon Hong Kong, with ill-defined terms, more presence of Chinese agents in Hong Kong and high possibility of extradition to China’s secret courts and black jails. As the law has completely undermined the city’s rule of law and judicial independence, we start this petition to call upon Cellebrite and other digital forensic companies to terminate cooperations with China and Hong Kong’s police forces and security agents.
Israeli forensics company Cellebrite has a long history helping Hong Kong police forces to crack into activists’ mobile devices. Earlier this year, Joshua Wong’s iPhone was crashed by police forces with Cellebrite’s data-extraction technology, let alone nearly 4,000 devices of detainees police cracked into last year.
However, more than just activists, the new security law also covers ordinary citizens and foreigners. According to Article 43 of the law, police can search electronic devices without warrant and court scrutiny. The law also criminalizes sharing of information under the vague offences of "colluding with foreign forces" and "unlawfully provides State secrets or intelligence concerning national", according to Article 29. In the case of China where the security law has been put in place for years, journalists, lawyers, and financial institutions have long become the victims under the law, in particular, the loosely-defined offences like "leaking state secrets" and "inciting subversion". As earlier as in 2005, Chinese journalist Shi Tao was sentenced to 10-year prison for sharing a CCP’s Tiananmen memo abroad. Another veteran journalist Gao Yu was also thrown into prison for downloading widely circulated CCP’s documents from the Internet and sharing them online.
Cellebrite claims its technology is used to create a “safer world.” But once Beijing has imposed a loosely-defined law that covers foreigners inside or outside the city, digital intelligence cooperations with this authoritarian regime are de facto imperilling the personal safety of all western nationals. Especially under rising China’s wolf-warrior diplomacy in recent years, foreign nationals have been subject to mainland-style arbitrary detention and prosecution to serve Beijing’s political ends, from Reuters reporter Anthony Grey to Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. With a broader scope of threats than other western democracies, all cooperations with China and Hong Kong under the new law would be a direct assault on the safe world instead.
To safeguard personal safety and confidentiality of citizens, journalists and foreigners travelling, working and living in this city, we are now calling upon the world to join our petition and urging Cellebrite and other digital forensic companies to terminate all phone-hacking cooperations with Hong Kong police forces and related security agencies.
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