She would be ninety-seven now and would probably be shocked at the eerie resonance the story has these days, with government snooping, out-of-control spies, drones, and secret prisons.
Company-wide, employees need to know that they can trust IT to protect their data and to not snoop out of idle curiosity.
Mr Oehrle says the lawyers also learn from the computers (presumably such things as empathy and the difference between right and wrong).To find employees with the opportunity to steal, the software looks for what snoops call "out of band" events: messages such as "call my mobile" or "come by my office" suggest a desire to talk without being overheard.
There was a time when the likes of Mr Rambam got paid big bucks to snoop out somebody's picture, sexual history, mother's maiden name (still a popular password) and list of friends.
However, this conflicts with -- My libertarian impulse, which is pro-choice and anti-compulsion, wants to protect the right to counsel of all suspects and the right to privacy of the rest of us, likes quiet cars in trains and vouchers for education, and wants snoops out of bedrooms and fundamentalists out of schoolrooms.
What started as a necessary means of reconnaissance and intelligence gathering during World War II has escalated into an out-of-control snoop state where entities both governmental and commercial are desperate for as much data as they can grab.
His father found out by snooping in his son's diary and dragged the boy to his study to trawl through the revolting illustrations in a three-volume encyclopedia of venereal disease.
And in the context of snooping through your partner's digital life, everything you see is out of context.
So Snoop found out that he had a son".
The extent of snooping in modern Britain is shocking.
That is twice the rate of snooping as in 1997.
