Think your sweetie is cheating? Before you call in the big guns, consult the PI in your pocket: your smartphone.
NFL Network correspondent Jane Slater said she caught an ex-boyfriend cheating using her Fitbit, the trendy fitness-tracking watch. The 39-year-old posted on Twitter that she discovered the bad news after noticing her “unaccounted for” ex — who had reportedly shared his profile with Slater on the watch’s app — was sweating a little too hard in the wee hours. “His physical activity levels were spiking,” Slater wrote. “Spoiler alert: He was not enrolled in an Orangetheory class.”
But Fitbit isn’t the only app helping suspicious lovers catch their cheating partners red-handed. Gone are the days of snooping through credit-card statements and pouring over phone bills. Wary husbands and wives are instead looking to apps and other technologies with geo-tracking abilities such as Uber, Tesla cars and E-ZPass, to help them sniff out the truth, experts tell The Post.
“I can’t even tell you how many cases we have like this,” says Murray Hill divorce lawyer Steven Mandel, adding that geo-location services have become a main window into someone’s infidelity at his practice.
One of Mandel’s current clients was caught stepping out on his wife after she noticed something fishy in their Uber receipts.
Mandel’s client shuttled the sex workers back and forth to his hotels, restaurants and special parties for over a year.
“I said, ‘Dude, why don’t you just have your own Uber [account]?’” Mandel says, laughing.
He has a point.
Joint accounts are often what end up setting off alarm bells since people are quick to forget which ones are shared with their honeys.
“A lot of times it’s the common things you use on an everyday basis that have a linking feature most don’t think about,” says Jason Crowley, founder of divorce counseling service Survive Divorce in Silicon Valley, Calif., who sites Amazon Prime accounts as an example. “People also forget to switch from a family account to their personal one.”
But in the case of Elon Musk’s Tesla, hiding in a personal account isn’t even an option. Each electric car is equipped with a built-in real-time GPS tracking feature that’s connected to the owner’s phone. Only a single owner — not a driving spouse — can easily view the car’s Geo-locating function and history.
And if that spouse is using the car, they don’t have any control over their movements being recorded. “You can’t turn it off,” said Crowley.
After speaking with private investigators, Crowley learned Tesla tracking is used mostly by “affluent communities” to set up traps for their potentially two-timing spouses.
“People might say, ‘Hey, what are you doing?,’ and they’ll respond, ‘I’m picking up groceries,’ but the Tesla shows they were in another location,” he explains. “If it’s not in real time, it’s harder to back them into a corner and really catch them.”
Despite all the new tech-driven ways to get caught, affairs are just as common as ever, says Mandel.
“If we put everyone in jail who committed adultery, I’d find a parking spot in front of my building,” he says.
Source: Nypost
