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investigate

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investigate
explore
have a good look at
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spy

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spy
poke your nose in
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Synonyms for snoop

to look into or inquire about curiously, inquisitively, or in a meddlesome fashion

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a person who snoops

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a spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others

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snooper

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watch, observe, or inquire secretly

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While often the British Parliament is merely a rubber stamp for the executive arm of government, occasionally it can rise to the occasion, as it has by rejecting the Snoopers Charter.

Britain's snoops circumvent parliament

A Birmingham MP has offered to solve the ongoing row over the so-called snooper's charter.

MP offers free expertise in snooper's charter row

Team member Emanuel von Zezschwitz said that the user controls only one pointer rest appear to press keys at random to distract the snooper.

Now, fake pointers on computer screens to foil 'shoulder surfers'

POLICE 'pooper snoopers' have launched a third crackdown on irresponsible pet owners.

Dog fouling crackdown

Snoopers are urged to report council tenants who sub-let their homes for a higher rent, lie about the number of children in the family or live most of the time at a lover's home.

pounds 4m turns neighbours into spies

Until then, we shall be saddled with an expensive and for the most part useless corps of snoopers.

50 years ago ..

PROPOSALS to give public bodies the power to monitor people's e-mail and internet records were today branded a "snoopers' charter".

E-mail privacy

Because websites usually file the information they collect about you by your IP number, getting a new IP number daily makes it much more difficult for snoopers.

Although you may or may not agree with the philosophy of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org), the organization's website has some of the best available information and tips on protecting your privacy

3M warns UK businesses of the risks of 'screen snoopers'

While Zero Popup kills pop-ups for a living, and makes a hobby of killing ActiveX Web spyware, Ad-aware deals with spyware full time, including the snoopers that come with installed programs.

Stop pop-up pests and spyware. (B.E. Reviews)

The approach to evaluating security for casual snoopers is similar to that for professional snoopers.

Security of Random Data Perturbation Methods

When new keys are used for each session, eavesdroppers or snoopers cannot use old keys to decrypt new messages.

ENCRYPTION ISSUES: MOVING TOWARD HIGHER PERFORMANCE NETWORK SECURITY SUBSYSTEMS

"SNOOPERS' charter", the name which Gerry Doyle admonishes the media for using, could indeed be an inappropriate moniker, implying as it does the nanny state as a busybody (Careful with Language, ECHO letters, May 29).

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