snoop
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When her brother tried to snoop, HomeView blurred the screen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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
“What did the snoop write down about you?”
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
Like most VPN users, Canadians use VPNs for safer torrenting, streaming foreign and local content while abroad, protecting their data on public networks, and, increasingly, to keep corporate and government snoops away from their data.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026
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
Similarly, virtual private networks hide your Internet activity from snoops, but they also can log it.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022
British spy Jacobus van Zandt snoops through papers in the desk of American agent Silas Deane in Paris.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
Prosecutors allege that he also snooped on Chinese dissidents in Germany.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
Postal Service in its crosshairs for an investigation of allegations that postal inspectors snooped on Americans via their social media accounts and online activity.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
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
Julian O’Neill investigates how the unlawful snooping was exposed.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
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
And for bears that keep snooping around houses or livestock, there are ways of hazing that don’t involve dogs chasing them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2025
Those traits, paired with her knack for snooping, made Harriet just like I was as a child: too curious for my own good, and prone to making mistakes because of it.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2025
People had probably started snooping around—I mean, if I could find his secret blog, I imagine the cops could, too.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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