Snooping was so important to Robert Greenberg that he avoided having his picture taken for years.
Putting a password on your phone is good for keeping a paranoid significant other from snooping.
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The attorney-general hung in valiantly, even going to Europe to do some snooping among foreign banks.
Now I tell people to trust their gut, to start asking questions and snooping around.
The paraphernalia of snooping, whether legal or not, is becoming both frighteningly sophisticated and easily affordable.
It may cause discomfort, but I suspect the snooping aspect is part of the appeal as well.
With plenty of spare time on his hands, he decides to do a little snooping of his own.
The information collected must also be passed on electronically to the agency which asked for the snooping to start.
That post reveals that the university was actually rather restrained in its snooping.
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And she suggests she too may have been a target of the snooping.
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Nowadays, when the most important acquired asset may be talent, you can't stop the snooping with a target's financials.
But what's the verdict when it comes to snooping on our loved ones?
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Snooping into people's lives, however worthy it could be made to sound, did not seem much fun any more.
Thanks to the work of two young cyber-security researchers, cellular snooping may soon be affordable enough for your next-door neighbor.
Carrying out this sort of cyber snooping does not take an encyclopaedic knowledge of computers or hours of trial and error.
This is happening partly because technology makes snooping easier, and partly because the law has not caught up with the technology.
For stars who like the idea of renting their home but don't want guests snooping everywhere, Randy Travis has the ideal solution.
Of course, this is not the only example of how snooping on customers without their knowledge can lead to a bad news day.
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"It's snooping only if we don't tell them we're doing it, " said Scott Steinberg the author of the best-selling "Modern Parent's Guide" series.
He notes signs that his room has been disturbed while he is out, which leads him to do some night-time snooping on Sanderson and Carrie.
But Stephen Patton has made social network snooping into a science.
The feds can't actively enlist us in certain kinds of snooping.
"Jennifer" isn't real--she's a fictional customer conjured up after six months of market research, including the infiltration of consumers' homes by packs of snooping Ford engineers.
And therein lies the problem: gathering information and building up profiles, if not done in a sensitive and transparent manner, can look an awful lot like snooping.
To whatever extent that is the case (depending on whose public pronouncements you believe), latent digital snooping was reinforced on the same day as the iPhone event.
Critics of aggressive insider-trading prosecutions say investors are actually aided by the snooping of hedge funds and other traders who help prices adjust more rapidly to significant information.
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There's nothing good about cheating, let's be clear on that, but I have to wonder what the rights and wrongs are when it comes to snooping on others.
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"The government has acted to control surveillance by local councils but this research shows more than ever before public bodies are using private detectives to do their snooping, " he said.
As encryption technologies have outpaced the mathematical methods of breaking crypto schemes, law enforcement has feared for years that scrambled messages between evildoers (or law-breaking activists) would thwart their snooping.
He said a lot of people complaining were worried that bin men would be "snooping" on them and that private waste, such as sanitary towels and condoms, would be on public show.
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