snoop
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Frank Bisignano directed staff to use software to snoop in email of rivals and surveil work of employees; Bisignano, who also heads Social Security, denied he ever spied on co-workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
E2EE has been hailed by privacy experts as the best way to protect conversations from hackers, corporations and even repressive authorities trying to snoop on users.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
Camryn Smith and her daughter showed up to snoop around for the deals at the Americana at Brand in Glendale early Friday morning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2025
One member warned that state officials would snoop around their rural properties to tell owners what to do.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2025
“Okay. I go in, snoop around, find what I need, and if I’m not back out in, let’s say, twenty minutes, you come in too. Yeah?”
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
Yet the very value proposition of VPNs rests on an internet rife with restrictions and snoops.
From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2025
Mr. Chew disputed that his app snoops on Americans.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
She snoops to conquer in “Harriet the Spy,” a new animated series based on the classic children’s novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2021
The latest evidence of the problem surfaced on Sept. 21 when a group of online snoops released purportedly leaked documents revealing a 2018 grant proposal.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2021
Julia often snoops in my room, but she's never discovered this hiding place.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Prosecutors allege that he also snooped on Chinese dissidents in Germany.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
It’s one of three alleging tabloids unlawfully snooped on the prince in their cutthroat competition for scoops on the royal family.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 5, 2023
The reporters who snooped on the weekend’s wedding via binoculars might have had a better view of what they were covering.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022
If a third party snooped, they would leave indelible evidence of their interference—like damaging a quantum wax seal.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022
Before I went back down, I snooped around a little bit.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
Partway through the 1965 film “The Ipcress File,” Harry Palmer returns home to find a young, female colleague snooping around his apartment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
An ATM con that involves some snooping, some acting and some sleight-of-hand is being carried out across Southern California, police say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
You are likely to connect to public Wi-Fi in airports, hotels and cafes, and encrypted connections are crucial for protecting personal data and preventing snooping.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025
Sometimes animal activists come snooping around, Mark said: “We do things differently, and some people don’t understand.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
“If you hadn’t gone snooping around Mirror Tech, he probably would never have even known about you.”
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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