Tag: technology and affairs

• The Quiet Snitch in Your Pocket: How Predictive Text Gives Married Daters Away

  Your phone’s keyboard learns every name you type – including his. Here’s how predictive text quietly exposes married daters, and how to hush it. Most people worry about the obvious things when it comes to married dating. The messages, deleted the second they’re read. The photos, tucked away behind a passcode. The browser history, cleared…

• Alexa Has a Better Memory Than Your Husband — And That’s the Problem

  Married daters guard their phones. But the smart speaker, doorbell and family car remember far more than you think — and that is where people slip up. Most married daters have one device they treat like a state secret. The phone. It’s locked, fingerprinted, notification-silenced and tucked into a pocket like a wallet in a…

• My Photos Are Syncing to My Husband’s iPad. Have I Just Blown My Cover?

  The question Dear Mia, I’m hoping you can talk me down because I haven’t slept in two nights. I’ve been seeing someone for four months — discreet, careful, nothing in writing. Last weekend my husband picked up the iPad we keep in the kitchen, the one the kids use for homework, and started flicking through…