Have you wondered how we're getting access to all these personal text messages, recordings and detail from the Brittany Higgins and Bruce Lehrmann case. The Briefing has the answer and it involves the incredible Israeli spy technology Cellebrite, that sucks all the information out of your phone and most of us have no idea our police and government are using it.

Author Antony Loewenstein of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports The Technology Of Occupation Around The World, joins us to explain what’s happening.

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