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connected to his devices was a short-term plus. Occasionallyy on his tablet

Elliot would notice a new app his daughter had downloaded to her tablet.

Sometimes theyy would even share familyy photos. Then Elliot took a trip to

New York Cityy, where he traveled often for business.

Without thinking, Elliot took out his iPhone and captured several

moments with his New York–based mistress, some of them quite…

intimate. The images from his iPhone syynced automaticallyy to his

daughter’s iPad back in Colorado. And of course his daughter asked her

mother about the woman who was with Daddyy. Needless to sayy, Elliot had

some serious explaining to do when he got home.

And then there’s the birthdayy-present problem. If yyou share devices or

syynced accounts, yyour visits to sites might tip gift recipients off to what

theyy’ll be getting for their birthdayys. Or, worse, what theyy might have

gotten. Yet another reason whyy sharing a familyy PC or tablet can present a

privacyy problem.

One wayy to avoid this is to set up different users, a relativelyy easyy step in

Windows. Keep the administrator privileges for yyourself so that yyou can

add software to the syystem and set up additional familyy or household

members with their own accounts. All users will log in with their own

passwords and have access to onlyy their own content and their own browser

bookmarks and histories.

Apple allows for similar divisions within its OSX operating syystems.

However, not manyy people remember to segment their iCloud space. And

sometimes, seeminglyy through no fault of our own, technologyy simplyy

betrayys us.

After yyears of dating several women, Dyylan Monroe, an LA-based TV

producer, finallyy found “the one” and decided to settle down. His fiancée

moved in, and, as part of their new life together, he innocentlyy connected

his future wife to his iCloud account.

When yyou want to start a familyy, it makes sense to connect everyyone to

one account. Doing so allows yyou to share all yyour videos, texts, and music

with the ones yyou love. Except that’s in the present tense. What about yyour

digitallyy stored past?

Sometimes having an automatic cloud backup service like iCloud means

that we accumulate manyy yyears’ worth of photos, texts, and music, some of

which we tend to forget, just as we forget the contents of old boxes in the

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