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But the Internet hasn't just changed our ideas about eavesdropping, it has also changed the context in which we do it.
We had Jamie Bell's Hallam Foe perving over Edinburgh, Shia LaBeouf curtain-twitching in Disturbia, and the Stasi eavesdropping it old school in The Lives Of Others.
The system does not prevent eavesdropping — it simply serves as a kind of burglar alarm, alerting computer users that an outsider is listening to a transmission on an optical network.
If you didn't mind eavesdropping, it was wonderfully enlightening.
If the majority of the public supports electronic eavesdropping, it's because of the assumption that profiling will exclude them from suspicion.
As we clamor about the loss of our privacy in the age of the internet and NSA eavesdropping, it's worth considering another aspect of public record keeping.
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And if it was eavesdropping, then it inevitably evokes thoughts of the N.F.L. scandal in which the New England Patriots used video cameras to record opposing coaches' signals during games.
We hear the conversation because Level 9 is eavesdropping on it.
But General Hayden, who led the security agency at the time of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and has been Mr. Bush's point man on the eavesdropping program, refused to say in the face of often sharp questioning exactly how the agency determined that an American's phone call or e-mail message might "involve Al Qaeda" before eavesdropping on it.
Snooping is slightly different from eavesdropping since it includes more sophisticated surveillance techniques to intercept secret communications such as through remote activity and key-stroke (key-loggers) monitors (Donevski et al. [2013]; Salsano et al. [2002]).
And the Red Cross's Florian Westphal fears satellite or mobile phones will make warlords even more suspicious of aid workers; it is now harder to eavesdrop than it was when aid workers used open radio frequencies.On balance, of course, technology is more of a boon than a problem, though the gains are uneven.
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