* New research reveals 65% of women have caught their partner cheating thanks to technology
* Lock screen phone notifications are the number one way ladies are busting their partner’s affair (24%)
* 38% of women suspicious of their partner’s shenanigans have gifted them gadgets that make it easier to discreetly keep tabs on them
* Study conducted by IllicitEncounters.com, the UK’s largest extramarital dating site
In a world driven by technology and AI, keeping secrets under wraps has become more challenging than ever – especially for those cheating on their partners.
It turns out the pursuit of secret affairs has become a high-stakes game, with an ever-increasing chance of being exposed, and it’s all thanks to tech.
New research by extramarital dating site IllicitEncounters.com found women are turning into digital detectives, with 65% saying they busted their partner’s affair by using technology.
38% of women even admitted to gifting their partners gadgets that could help them keep an eye on what they’re getting up to.
The study which involved 1,500 members of the website found that notifications on their partner’s phone were the top way of discovering their partner’s affair (24%) – email, Whatsapp and social media alerts popping up on lock screens are a big give away when it comes to exposing cheats.
Old-school methods like checking browser history (18%), call logs (13%) and emails (9%) are still trusty ways women are discovering their partners are loverats.
However, there are more novel and much more sophisticated ways people are getting caught out these days. Alexa (11%), fitness watches (8%) and Ring doorbells (5%) have also made it on the list of how cheats are being busted by their wives.
There are even people who go as far as using AI voice cloning (2%) to discover whether partners are being unfaithful.
Jane, 38 from Newcastle, a member of IllicitEncounters, shared her story on the topic saying, “A few months ago I used an AI voice cloning programme because I was suspicious about what my husband was up to – I’d noticed he’d started getting calls quite often from a ‘Jordan’. I’ve been with my husband for nearly 10 years and I’d never seen or heard of any friends with that name, so obviously I thought something shady was going on.
That’s when I had the idea of cloning my husband’s voice and calling this ‘Jordan’ to find out who they actually were. All I had to do was upload a clip of him talking and then I could create the conversation I wanted using AI. Anyway, I called ‘Jordan’ and it turned out this was a woman my husband was having an affair with. She had absolutely no idea it wasn’t really him she was talking to.
I actually haven’t told my husband any of this, and now I’ve found myself having a revenge affair to get my own back. And if he finds out… that’s fine because I’ve got an ace up my sleeve if he ever wants to confront me about it.”
Fiona, 37 from Windsor, another member of the extramarital dating site who took part in the study said, “I found out my partner was cheating on me one weekend when I went to visit my mum in Cornwall, and it was all thanks to Alexa. I’d had my suspicions about what he was getting up to, so as soon as I got home I took a peek at the voice history log.
That’s when I found out he’d asked Alexa to play our ‘sexy’ playlist we’d put together – a bit weird because as far as I knew, it was something we’d only listen to when things got steamy between us. I discovered you can actually listen to Alexa recordings, and when he asked to play that specific playlist I heard a woman laugh in the background.
When I brought it up, he unsurprisingly came clean about it straightaway – I mean he couldn’t really deny it, the proof was there!”
Sex and relationships expert for IllicitEncounters.com, Jessica Leoni, commented on the study, “Technology has advanced in ways we could never have imagined over the past few years, and in some cases it’s made it super easy to catch cheaters in the act – though I have to say, it doesn’t appear to be having an effect on the number of people having affairs as the figure continues to rise.
Whether it’s old-school errors like saucy texts left on phones, or more modern slip-ups with location-tracking and AI, people need to be clever about how they’re covering their digital tracks.”
Results
Have you ever caught your partner using technology?
Yes – 65%
No – 35%
How have you used technology to discover your partner was cheating?
Phone notifications – 24%
Checking browser history – 18%
Call history – 13%
Alexa – 11%
Checking emails – 9%
Fitness watch – 8%
Find My Phone location tracking – 7%
Ring doorbell – 5%
AI voice cloning – 2%
Other – 3%
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