Learning how to catch a cheater can be fairly easy, thanks to our digital footprints.
Experts don’t exactly agree on what percentage of people in supposedly monogamous relationships end up cheating; estimates run the gamut from 11 to 50 percent. Many study and survey results seem to fall around the 20 to 25 percent mark — still a sobering range.
In these days of instant digital communication and the information trail it leaves, there are more ways for your partner to discover your infidelity, even if you think you are carefully covering your tracks.
One issue is that just because you delete something from your computer or phone doesn’t mean it’s really gone. There are computer forensics companies that specialize in recovering data for suspicious spouses and other clients.
Recovery tools, as well as tracking and monitoring software and hardware, are also easy to obtain these days. And, as ever, your significant other can hire a private investigator, and he or she has access to lots of newfangled tools to spy on you.
An industrious partner can even find incriminating information without professional help by looking in a few key places on your shared computer, your phone or any social media sites you or your friends frequent.
There is always the danger of self-betrayal from lipstick on a collar to a hotel receipt in a pocket to a partner’s behavior (i.e. acting guilty or suspicious). But the wondrous advancements of this digital age also give us new and creative ways to slip up.
But a percentage of people will cheat despite the breach in ethics or risk of discovery. Here are 11 ways technology — the very technology that is aiding them in their indiscretions — can betray cheating partners.
