Israeli security firm used to surveil Britney Spears by father

• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Published date: 26 September 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The documentary relies on evidence brought to light by a former employee, 30-year-old Alex Vlasov, who served as BBX's operations and cybersecurity manager and executive assistant to the CEO and founder, Edan Yemeni, for nine years.

Edan Yemeni was born in Israel and is described on the firm's website as having a background in the Israeli Special Forces.

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Vlasov began working for BBX in 2012 and revealed through text messages, audio recordings, and emails the extent of the surveillance that the pop singer was subjected to under her conservatorship, facilitated by the firm.

Spears has been under conservatorship since a series of public mental breakdowns in 2008, which means that her father has had almost full control of her life for 13 years, including full financial control over her almost $60 million-worth estate.

He revealed that the firm would monitor digital communications by mirroring her iCloud account to a separate iPod (and later an iPad), where Yemeni would tell Vlasov to encrypt private information such as texts, FaceTime calls, browser history, and photographs and forward it to Jamie Spears.

"Her own phone and her own private conversations were...