The modern mobile phone is a wonderous thing. Its computing compacity 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, and the disappearing texts of the US Secret Service.
Over the past several years, the US Supreme Court has given broad protection to the personal information in mobile phones when it comes to criminal matters.
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David Horrigan is Relativity’s discovery counsel and legal education director. An attorney, award-winning journalist, law school guest lecturer, and former e-discovery industry analyst, David has served as counsel at the Entertainment Software Association, reporter and assistant editor at The National Law Journal, and analyst and counsel at 451 Research. The author and co-author of law review articles as well as the annual Data Discovery Legal Year in Review, David is a frequent contributor to Legaltech News, and he was First Runner-Up for Best Legal Analysis in the LexBlog Excellence Awards. His articles have appeared also in The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, The New York Law Journal, Texas Lawyer, The Washington Examiner, and others, and he has been cited by media, includingAmerican Public Media’s Marketplace, TechRepublic, and The Wall Street Journal. David serves on the Global Advisory Board of ACEDS, the Planning Committee of the University of Florida E-Discovery Conference, and the Resource Board of the National Association of Women Judges. David is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia, and he is an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Professional/US.
