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Is sharing your smartphone PIN part of a healthy relationship?

Smartphones contain some of our most intimate data, but are you willing to share it with your most intimate partner? A survey has revealed that 51 per cent of people are happy to give their PIN to their partner, but other forms of data sharing are less agreeable

By Matthew Sparkes

18 July 2024

Sharing smartphone access can be divisive

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Would you share your smartphone PIN with your partner? More than half of people surveyed think that doing so is a common and healthy part of modern relationships, although only slightly more than half actually hand over their security details. Fewer still approve of other digital sharing, such as internet search history or location data.

Periwinkle Doerfler at New York University and her colleagues came to these conclusions after investigating public habits and perceptions of sharing smartphone access with partners, and they found that there was no strong consensus…

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