Sentences with phrase «snooping by»

A secure mobile connection may be harder than you think, and logging in from public WiFi in an airport or coffee shop makes you a prime target for phone snooping by hackers nearby.

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington DC think tank, reckons US firms could lose $ 35 billion in sales in the next two years because of fears over snooping by the US National Security Agency (NSA).

The change comes two weeks after Uber settled a U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint that the company failed to protect the personal information of drivers and passengers and was deceptive about its efforts to prevent snooping by its employees.

I'm a stay - at - home mum to five precocious children and wife to the ultra-handy Dave by day and a snoop by night, stalking interesting characters through historical settings, and writing about their exploits.

Protect yourself from Wi - Fi snoops by installing virtual private network (VPN) software, which will encrypt all Internet traffic on your laptop, smartphone or tablet.

Not exact matches

I found out a year later by Facebook snooping (he was still in contact with her and she gave me bad vibes).

But if foreign consumers, and especially businesses, believe data held with those companies is vulnerable to snooping, Kroes thinks they could quickly lose their edge in an industry estimated by research company Gartner Inc. to be worth more than $ 135 billion a year.

The Geek Squad has been described by Best Buy leadership as a key part of the chain's survival as a retailer in the age of Amazon, and public awareness that the friendly mobile IT support team could also be FBI snoops would be nothing short of devastating to that strategy.

Uber is hiring a former IBM chief privacy officer to review the company's practices after it was reported the company may have violated its privacy policy by snooping on customer data.

In their March 2018 paper entitled «Pairs Trading, Technical Analysis and Data Snooping: Mean Reversion vs Momentum», Ioannis Psaradellis, Jason Laws, Athanasios Pantelous and Georgios Sermpinis test a variety of technical trading rules for long - short trading of 15 commodity futures, equity indexes and currency pairs (all versus the U.S. dollar) frequently used on trading websites or offered by financial market firms.

By the time the Berlin Wall finally came down in 1989, the Stasi employed 102,000 persons to snoop on a country of only 17 million.

My kids are always snooping around the kitchen (which by the way I seriously can't stand) asking if I'm making that chicken again.

I am sure this will be copied to the RM blog by some snooping «Madridista» to show how illogical and immature the Juventinos are.

By the end of this past season, the likes of Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspurs, and Real Madrid were snooping around the winger, but Monchi's long - term interest in the player resulted in his eventual $ 13.4 million transfer to Roma.

«Your children want you to say «no», they want and need for you to snoop, they want to use «my mom won't let me» as an excuse, they want frank discussions in which they aren't treated like infants, and by the way they want you to put down

«Your children want you to say «no», they want and need for you to snoop, they want to use «my mom won't let me» as an excuse, they want frank discussions in which they aren't treated like infants, and by the way they want you to put down your phone and pay more attention to them.

Revelations about the snooping activities of GCHQ - which saw diplomats» emails reportedly hacked and their phone call activity monitored by a team of 45 analysts - come after US whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the UK could have benefited from an American snooping programme known as «Prism».

A reverse of privacy sensibilities: In most other industrialized countries, there is an acceptance of government intrusion of privacy, but other citizens snooping into your past is taboo, and made difficult by things such as «the right to be forgotten» in the EU.

NYC mayoral candidate Bo Dietl now admits his private - eye firm snooped on Fox News journalist Gretchen Carlson and a woman who accused Bill O'Reilly of sexual harassment in 2005 — while continuing to insist he'd never been hired by Roger Ailes to dig up dirt on reporters.

On the day before the sixth anniversary of the 7 July 2005 London bombings, it was reported that relatives of some victims may have had their telephones snooped on by the News of the World in the aftermath of the attacks.

It was accompanied by the infamous «Ripa» (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) laying down rules on data access, and under which dwelt such horrors as a local council snooping on parents to see if they have lied about living in the catchment area of a popular school.

We are also determined to go even further in protecting the individual from the clutches of an over-mighty state, by taking the details of innocent people off the DNA database and amending the laws that allow councils to snoop on people.

They are the fence - building, snooping - on - your - emails, foreign - worker - listing party and that is something that most people will be revulsed by.

To the surprise of GNPC Engineers whose murmurings were snooped on by our scouts, the belligerent Board Chairman insists that the Voltaian Basin Project be put on hold in spite of the millions of dollars that GNPC has already committed to the search for petro - carbon deposits in the Voltaian Basin.

Cell phones, smart phones, and other personal electronic devices are free from arbitrary police snooping in California — at least for the time being, thanks to actions taken by the state legislature and Governor Jerry Brown.

And then there is the much bigger rump that could not get access to good schools (down under Labour), good apprenticeships / sponsoring companies, also down under Labour and lastly betrayed by a Labour Govt that seems to think spending vast amounts of money on snooping campaigns to catch benefit cheats is a better investment than educating and reskilling the un-employed, who on going out to do the jobs that must be done find themselves up against foreign labour sometimes willing to work the most brutal conditions (and maybe less than min wage because it is still better than home).

If something is obtained by illegal means (hack, snoop or whistleblow) then no way can it be touched for fear of taint.

So a team of researchers led by Romina Scardamaglia, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Buenos Aires, decided to use new radio - tracking technology to snoop on two kinds of devious cowbirds in Argentina.

«We didn't want to cloud this work unnecessarily by dragging in the specter of snooping and surveillance.»

The Valiant Files section offers a whole mess of original sketches, background paintings, production stills, promotional posters, and photographs, all of which you can access as easter eggs by snooping with a magnifying glass through Eddie's office or from a simple menu at the bottom of the screen.

The Skeleton Twins by Hope Madden I once trapped myself down my vacationing neighbors» basement, having let myself in to snoop around and then snagging my hair inside a piece... read more →

She is «different» and is therefore regarded with extreme suspicion and hostility by Orlando's family, by the doctors and by the female police officer who keeps on snooping into her affairs.

Soon however, after he snoops in the lab of his father's former partner in cross-species cell research, he is bitten by a modified, spider and discovers his superhuman abilities.

Why his way of doing that was by making a movie about paranoid neighbors snooping on the bizarre new family living amongst them is unclear.

Peter gets bitten by a genetically modified spider when he snoops somewhere he shouldn't and suffice to say, Spider - Man is born and wastes no time in righting some wrongs.

Retired from the rodeo circuit and scraping by on piecework as a bounty hunter, warrant server, and divorce snoop, Rodeo doesn't have much choice but to say yes when offered an unusual case.

The interactive website also offers a more in - depth look at the story lines and cast by inviting readers to «snoop» in the hotel's guest rooms.

It's not every day that a 12 - year - old gets sent by her parents to a great - aunt's fabulous estate in Spain — to snoop around and make sure no outsiders are angling to get poor old Aunt Ursula's property.

It violated two major tech directives: it didn't allow for remote snooping of customer data like android, and two, it was handwriting input, something forbidden by Apple and the industry (they want keyboard input for keyloggers and the like to work better).

Don't get bogged down by the time it takes to check your credit, investigate foreclosures, snoop your marital status, analyze your income, and inspect any other financial item.

(3) Your results are biased by data - snooping and knowledge of the trend.

You will achieve two things by doing this: 1) this will discourage your cat from looking outside which could unlock the door unintentionally if sitting too close 2) will discourage raccoons or other cats from snooping inside, which gets them more motivated to get in.

By the wording in his posts, he admits to snooping around on Xbox.com itself.

Republique tells a compelling story about the reach of government surveillance by using security cameras as tools to snoop into the most common elements of our digital lives — from emails, to voice recordings.

While it doesn't quite feel as alive as Rockstar's virtual cities, Aiden's ability to hack into the smartphones of passers - by and snoop in on their conversations about last night's date or what they're having for tea helps bring the citizens to life - as does watching people whip out their smartphones to take snaps of nearby car crashes.

McLean was to directly reject their approach however, in favour of an even more radical interpretation of what sculpture could be; making his own body the material of sculpture and cocking a snoop at his tutors by not only reinstating the plinth but also making it his «stage.»

So it was really quite brazen curve - fitting - by - snooping.

In the case of complicated models of Earth's atmosphere and oceans, it is true that it is not simple to do controlled experiments, so we must substitute model predictions against reality to judge the model (and by «prediction» I mean what happens in the future, not a data - snooped hind - cast).

In our Office's experience from past investigations, there is a difference between having information available to those who explicitly seek it out directly from source websites for specific purposes (for example, a lawyer doing jurisprudential research in CanLII or a journalist seeking out past articles on a given issue), and, the same information being «stumbled upon» or «fished out» by a snooping friend, colleague, neighbor or other acquaintance through a simple query search by an individual's name.

They include audio of Greco's Friday news conference, Justice Kennedy's keynote, an Aug. 7 panel on government snooping moderated by Court TV's Catherine Crier and speeches by incoming president Karen J. Mathis and incoming president - elect William H. Neukom.