For instance, they've spied on cheating husbands and wives in order to document extramarital affairs.
The East German secret police, the Stasi, spied on him, using his friends and contacts as informers.
He said sorry because a New Zealand law enforcement agency was judged to have illegally spied on Mr Dotcom.
The investigation couldn't determine the full extent of the information that was spied on by the hackers, they said.
Police suspect that cell phone carriers, an importer of Volvos and a mineral water supplier, among others, spied on the competition.
Last year, undercover officer Mark Kennedy was dramatically unmasked by an environmental protest group he had spied on for seven years.
Anglers have spied on him through binoculars, trying to deduce his methods.
The molecules settle on the crystal and can then be spied on.
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And the director of intelligence resigned after it was revealed that a mid-level official in her agency had spied on Gustavo Petro, an opposition senator.
Labour MP Nick Brown said that many of his constituents were concerned that they would be "spied on" and that information could be "illegally obtained" and find itself in the public domain.
Despite denials from the company itself, there is tremendous buzz in the hacker community about whether changes to the architecture of Skype will make it easier for users to be spied on.
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Another running sore involves the civilian intelligence service, known as DAS. Three successive directors of this body, each chosen by Mr Uribe, are being questioned by prosecutors over claims that DAS illegally spied on opposition politicians, journalists and Supreme Court justices.
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Prime Meats does a lot of things very, very well, but one of the things it truly excels at is spaetzle, so I was intrigued when I spied on the menu a hash that combined those tiny wheat-flour dumplings with gently smoked haddock and sweet beets.
As the Times notes, Dunn rose from a secretary to run the investment firm Barclays Global, and then to serve as chairwoman at HP, only to be forced out at HP for her role in a scandal in which the company spied on reporters and others in an attempt to stop boardroom leaks.
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On September 16th, a week after the attack on the mosque, a Qusra farmer, Fathallah Abu Rayda, spied a band of settlers near his local well, seemingly intent on destroying or poisoning it, and notified the village network.
Dry channels on the Martian surface were first spied by Mariner 9 in 1971.
Evidently Chambers had turned on his computer one morning, clicked on his famous CEO dashboard--reported to be the best sales forecaster on the planet--and had spied a plague of locusts eating Cisco sales.
Philip Lawson, a Suffolk farmer now in his late eighties, returned to the place where, as a young flight lieutenant on a secret mission, he had spied out a potential airstrip and encouraged the local people to scythe the fields and remove the rocks.
The feds still lacked any evidence that Lee had spied or even stolen anything, and so they kept their sleuths on the case.
While patrolling the halls of the CHI 2013 Human Factors in Computing conference in Paris, we spied a research project from MIT's Media Lab called "Smarter Objects" that turns Minority Report tech on its head.
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