The modern mobile phone is a wonderous thing. It’s computing capacity is greater than mainframe computers of not that long ago—and what you’ve heard about it being more powerful than the computers NASA used to get humans to the Moon? That’s true, too.

Such computing prowess comes with legal considerations, especially when the devices carry a veritable cornucopia of private data. Mobile phones and their text message output have made the news recently in the Alex Jones imbroglio, a continuation of e-discovery gone wrong in the case, to the disappearing texts of the U.S. Secret Service.