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Aaron Just a word of caution on this: I don't know which country the OP is in, but it's not true that every jurisdiction requires a court order to access much of that information, particularly metadata rather than the content of SMS's. Until the Supreme Court ruling in Carpenter vs US in 2018, law enforcement could -- and did -- access that data without a court order. As another example, in Ireland there was a law in 2011 which gave police access to any phone metadata without a warrant, something which was only ruled illegal last year. So do be careful saying the state requires court orders, because even in democratic countries that's not always true!