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Recent Examples of eavesdropping
Officials with the appropriate security clearances enter a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), like the White House Situation Room, which is designed to block out eavesdropping and surveillance attempts.
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Sam Sabin, Axios, 25 Mar. 2025
This bucket includes things like GPS navigation satellites, NRO surveillance and eavesdropping platforms, and strategic communications satellites built to survive a nuclear war.
—ArsTechnica, 5 Apr. 2025
Although not a household name like the CIA or FBI, the NSA is a vast and extremely high-tech spying agency that specializes in gathering signals intelligence – more commonly known as electronic eavesdropping - around the world, in space and more recently in cyberspace.
—Josh Meyer, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
Encryption not only helps prevent eavesdropping but also ensures that sensitive conversations—like financial transactions or legal discussions—remain private.
—Ruchir Brahmbhatt, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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Sam Sabin, Axios, 25 Mar. 2025
This bucket includes things like GPS navigation satellites, NRO surveillance and eavesdropping platforms, and strategic communications satellites built to survive a nuclear war.
—ArsTechnica, 5 Apr. 2025
Although not a household name like the CIA or FBI, the NSA is a vast and extremely high-tech spying agency that specializes in gathering signals intelligence – more commonly known as electronic eavesdropping - around the world, in space and more recently in cyberspace.
—Josh Meyer, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
Encryption not only helps prevent eavesdropping but also ensures that sensitive conversations—like financial transactions or legal discussions—remain private.
—Ruchir Brahmbhatt, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eavesdropping
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Why James Comey's Instagram post triggered federal response Comey was leading the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election when Trump fired him in May 2017.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
18 May 2025
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Comey further angered Trump by publicly confirming that the FBI was investigating Russian interference in the election and possible involvement by Trump campaign officials.—
Martha McHardy
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 May 2025
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During interrogation, detectives kicked the men in their legs and genitals and punched them in the head, according to the lawsuit.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2025
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The individual was said to have confessed during interrogation.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
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However, the Pentagon assessed in its report that the ship can launch large maritime unmanned aerial vehicles for strike, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 May 2025
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For example, the Cooperative Institutes in Wisconsin and Colorado have developed software and methods that help meteorologists better understand the current state of tropical cyclones and forecast future intensity when aircraft reconnaissance isn’t immediately available.—
Chris Vagasky,
The Conversation,
5 May 2025
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Drivers mostly agreed about this line of questioning, too.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
19 May 2025
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Toward the end of Thursday’s questioning, the defense asked Ventura about the 2016 InterContinental hotel freak-off, where the video of Combs beating Ventura in a hallway came from, and tried to indicate Combs was going through opiate withdrawal at the time, The New York Times reported.—
Conor Murray,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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Last May, a 2016 hotel surveillance video exclusively shared by CNN showed Combs kicking, hitting and dragging Ventura Fine – actions that were first described in her legal complaint.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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On the first day of the trial on Monday, May 12, jurors saw surveillance video of the music mogul beating and kicking Ventura in an elevator bank at the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles in 2016.—
Elizabeth Rosner,
People.com,
14 May 2025
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“Eavesdropping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eavesdropping. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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