# Cellebrite — "Cellebrite to Stop Selling Its Digital Intelligence Offerings in Hong Kong & China" (press release, Oct 7 2020) > *This is Cellebrite's own October 7, 2020 press release announcing that "effective immediately" it would stop selling its solutions and services to customers in Hong Kong and China. It is the company's primary-source statement on the most widely reported of its withdrawals from a repressive market, and it states the company's own framing — attributing the move to "a change in U.S. regulations" rather than to the documented use of its phone-extraction tools against Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters. It matters to the Arkansas surveillance investigation because Cellebrite (a phone-extraction vendor, distinct from NSO Group / Pegasus spyware) is one of the surveillance vendors whose products Arkansas law-enforcement agencies have adopted; the company's human-rights record and its own self-presentation are part of documenting that vendor.* ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** Cellebrite (corporate newsroom / press releases) - **URL:** https://www.cellebrite.com/en/cellebrite-to-stop-selling-its-digital-intelligence-offerings-in-hong-kong-china/ - **Archived:** 2026-06-07 via firecrawl_scrape - **Tier:** 2 (primary/official — the vendor's own statement) ## Extract — verbatim (lightly cleaned) **Cellebrite to Stop Selling Its Digital Intelligence Offerings in Hong Kong & China** October 7, 2020 | Cellebrite > **TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 7, 2020** – Cellebrite, the global leader in Digital Intelligence (DI) solutions for public and private sectors, announced today that effective immediately it will stop selling its solutions and services to customers in Hong Kong and China. The announcement is a result of a change in U.S. regulations. > "Cellebrite empowers law enforcement agencies and enterprises to make our communities safer by providing solutions that help lawfully acquire digital evidence in criminal investigations and civil proceedings," said Yossi Carmil, CEO of Cellebrite. "As part of our standard business operations, we regularly review and update our compliance policies to ensure we operate according to accepted international rules and regulations." **About Cellebrite** > Cellebrite is the global leader of Digital Intelligence solutions for law enforcement, government and enterprise organizations. Cellebrite delivers an extensive suite of innovative software solutions, analytic tools, and training designed to accelerate digital investigations and address the growing complexity of handling crime and security challenges in the digital era. Trusted by thousands of leading agencies and companies in more than 150 countries, Cellebrite is helping fulfill the joint mission of creating a safer world. (Page metadata: article published 2020-10-07; modified 2021-01-15. Title tag: "Cellebrite Stops Sales in Hong Kong & China". og:description: "Cellebrite announces it will immediately stop selling digital intelligence solutions in Hong Kong and China following a change in U.S. regulations.")