The use of military grade spyware by Australian government departments means our most personal data stored on our mobile phones – from financial details, contacts, and private photos, to an archive of messages and movements – is no longer secret.

ANTONY LOEWENSTEIN is co-editor of DECLASSIFIED AUSTRALIA, and an independent journalist, author and film-maker who has written for the Guardian, New York Times and many others. His books include Disaster Capitalism: Making A Killing Out Of Catastrophe and Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside The Bloody War On Drugs
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