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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