People love their smartphones and all the amazing things that the devices can do for them.

They are not always aware, however, of all the amazing things the devices can do for others.

One group that is on the plus side are divorce lawyers, who can now demand evidence that corroborates an alibi or blows it out of the water. You can’t keep saying that you stayed home in Maine if the GPS feature on your phone tells the court that you were at a fancy restaurant in Boston (and your Facebook page shows a picture of who you were with).

If the government required us to carry a sensor that kept track of where we went, what we read, who we talked to and how we spent our money, we would rightly revolt. But millions of us are doing this to ourselves, creating a treasure trove of information for people who for commercial or other reasons, want to know what we are up to. Some cell phone companies hold on to customer data for years, and everyone should expect to see their text messages reappear if they are in the middle of a messy divorce or other legal dispute.

The advancement in communications technology is an amazing thing, but there are likely a lot of litigants who are wondering whether carrying around that smartphone was such a smart thing to do.

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