The American Civil Liberties Union stumbled upon a document submitted to the court during a drug investigation headed up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The document lists the data that ICE officials were able to pull off an iPhone, and it's striking how much information that one small device can hold.
According to the report, ICE snagged the iPhone from a suspect's bedroom during a drug bust and subjected the phone to one data extraction session. During that sweep, officials were able to obtain the following personal information:
call activity for 104 calls
phone book directory information for 18 contacts
stored voicem