snoop
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ADS-B gave them an instant high-tech snoop tool, including the ability to claim owners are registering planes in one place but parking them elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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
There is something about a healthy personality that feels repelled by a snoop, a snitch, a stool pigeon, an informer.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2025
"How could you trust that snoop? He betrayed us."
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
He can be paranoid, but she snoops around a lot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 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
Julia often snoops in my room, but she's never discovered this hiding place.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
For eight years they snooped on 182 nests, checking them every few days during the breeding season.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 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
The authors speculate it was perhaps high-altitude reconnaissance planes flying at 6 miles high that often snooped over Benghazi.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2022
It has also been reprimanded over allegations that it snooped on former top wealth-management executive Iqbal Khan as well as being fined over bribery and fraud charges relating to the $2 billion Mozambican corruption scandal.
From Reuters ● Dec. 13, 2021
As the Object dressed, I snooped around the bedroom.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Internet-connected cameras have become a background fixture of daily life: security systems, doorbells, traffic cameras, baby monitors—and potentially any of them are vulnerable to snooping, say cybersecurity experts and hackers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Julian O’Neill investigates how the unlawful snooping was exposed.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 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
It was an accident, really, I wasn’t snooping.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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