spy on

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They also said the Roomba would enable Amazon to hoover up data and spy on Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal

Anchored by Bollywood star Ranveer Singh's swaggering performance as Hamza, an Indian spy on a perilous mission in Karachi in Pakistan, the film traces his battles against criminal networks, shadowy operatives and personal demons - all framed against the backdrop of India-Pakistan tensions.

From BBC

Built-in nest boxes with glass walls on the inside let Mr. Nicolson spy on their interiors, but his larger hope is that the whole hexagonal structure will be a kind of human nest box whose porous borders allow him to incubate a new awareness of the natural world.

From The Wall Street Journal

To spy on a private world is to observe the truths people most want to keep hidden.

From The Wall Street Journal

“During their relationship, Schmidt confided that when he worked at Google, he built an insider “backdoor” to Google servers with a team of Google engineers in order to spy on Google employees.

From Los Angeles Times