(v. i.) To stand under the eaves, near a window or at the door, of a house, to listen and learn what is said within doors; hence, to listen secretly to what is said in private.
(n.) The water which falls in drops from the eaves of a house.
Example Sentences:
(1) Iain Lobban, the director of GCHQ, the government's eavesdropping and encrypting agency, last week used his first public speech to call for an aggressive approach to cyber attacks, and warned of the dangers of adopting the sort of defensive strategy famously symbolised by France's Maginot line, which was meant to repel the Germans and failed.
(2) The ISC report does not include the evidence it has been given recently by GCHQ officials on the massive British and US eavesdropping programmes leaked to the Guardian .
(3) The Guardian , along with some of the world's other major media organisations, including the New York Times, the Washington Post and Der Spiegel, began disclosing details of the extent and reach of secret surveillance programmes run by Britain's eavesdropping centre, GCHQ, and the National Security Agency in June.
(4) Claiming not to have seen the specific reports, Hogan-Howe said he would be “amazed” if officials at MI5 and GCHQ were routinely eavesdropping on attorney-client conversations, adding: “That is very legally restricted unless the lawyer is involved with crime.” “It’s very clear what the law says, which is obviously that there is a legal privilege that exists between a lawyer and their client,” he said.
(5) Then she asks: Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on?
(6) And now, the US supreme court just consecrated one of the most corrupt acts of the US government over the past decade: its vesting of retroactive legal immunity in the nation's telecom giants after they had been caught red-handed violating multiple US eavesdropping laws.
(7) By integrating bulk data [redaction] with information about individual subjects of interest from other sources of intelligence (liaison relationships, agent reporting, intercept, eavesdropping, surveillance) and from ‘fusing’ different data-sets in order to identify common links, we can better understand target networks, locations and behaviours, enabling a greater depth and breadth of target coverage.
(8) In the UK, arguments against the “snooper’s charter”, a bill that gives the British government huge power to eavesdrop on encrypted connections, have also been made with regard to China.
(9) The intervention comes after the Guardian and some of the world's other major media organisations, including the New York Times, the Washington Post and Der Spiegel, began disclosing details of the extent and reach of secret surveillance programmes run by Britain's eavesdropping centre, GCHQ, and the National Security Agency.
(10) In his first public speech, Iain Lobban, the director of GCHQ, the government's eavesdropping and encrypting agency, last week called for an aggressive approach to cyber attacks, and warned of the dangers of adopting the sort of defensive strategy famously symbolised by France's Maginot line , which was meant to repel the Germans.
(11) National security state officials also decreed that it would "not be in the public interest" to report on the Pentagon Papers, or the My Lai massacre, or the network of CIA black sites in which detainees were tortured, or the NSA warrantless eavesdropping program, or the documents negating claims of Iraqi WMDs, or a whole litany of waste, corruption and illegality that once bore the "top secret" label.
(12) Both Labour and Lib Dems said the wording opens the door into an investigation into whether the US National Security Agency or GCHQ eavesdropping centre in Cheltenham have been circumventing the warrant system approved by parliament by using technologies to hoover up information from communications traffic.
(13) Ludlam’s question, by way of the journalists’ union’s submission, was this: if conducted as an SIO, would it be illegal to report that intel agencies eavesdropped on the private phone conversations of the Indonesian president’s wife?
(14) This is why the UK began the Cyber Security Challenge in 2011, and why Millican and otherparticipants have been discreetly courted by GCHQ, the government's electronic eavesdropping centre, which is on the frontline of this new power struggle.
(15) Timor-Leste is reluctant to pursue the Indonesian military for its crimes, provable in part due to Australian eavesdropping, in the name of enhanced relations with its all-powerful neighbour in Jakarta.
(16) Coulson has always denied any knowledge of the illegal eavesdropping at the News of the World, for which ex-royal editor Clive Goodman and a private detective were jailed in 2007.
(17) Le Monde said: "The document specifies the techniques used to spy on the communications of the French diplomats: Highlands for pirating computers using remotely delivered cookies; Vagrant for capturing information from screens; and finally PBX, which is the equivalent of eavesdropping on the discussion of the French diplomatic service as if one was participating in a conference call."
(18) If you posit that the entire world is a "battlefield", then you're authorizing him to do anywhere in the world what he can do on a battlefield: kill, imprison, eavesdrop, detain - all without limits or oversight or accountability.
(19) Declassified after 50 years, they show that MI5 subjected Edith Tudor-Hart to round-the-clock surveillance, opened her mail, tapped her telephone, bugged her home and eavesdropped on the conversations of her friends and associates.
(20) Files leaked by Snowden show the British eavesdropping centre, GCHQ, and its US counterpart, the National Security Agency, have developed capabilities to undertake mass surveillance of the web and mobile phone networks.
Overhear
Definition:
(v. t.) To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.
(v. t.) To hear again.
Example Sentences:
(1) I remember his name being whispered by my uncles for fear I would overhear.
(2) Or the afternoon I was standing outside a hotel room awaiting a private audience with Martin Scorsese, only to overhear him complaining that he had done enough interviews for one day.
(3) One of her favourites is overhearing a colleague saying: "You can't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die."
(4) Women had complained of harassment ranging from being groped in the office and told to sit on their bosses’ laps if they wanted a Christmas bonus, to being forced to overhear male colleagues ranking new female recruits based on their sexual attractiveness.
(5) Overhearing my family say negative comments about other LGBT people made me censor myself in their presence, lest they discover that I was too.
(6) I overhear two parties from Essex reacquainting themselves, the afternoon after the early hours before.
(7) He describes overhearing Gates discussing ways to dilute his stake in the firm and says he burst into the room, shouting, "This is unbelievable!
(8) The top OIC and the overhearing battle captain informed me that they didn't need or want to know this information anymore.
(9) It's just like overhearing a friend at a party talking quietly to someone else, saying something completely different from what they had just spent an hour talking to you about.
(10) It was charged as burglary, but I remember overhearing a conversation between his dad and the solicitor standing outside: "Why is this not just shoplifting?
(11) Just as I once delighted in overhearing an American fashion journalist in Paris go nuclear down the phone at her poor assistant in New York for shipping over the wrong Balenciaga ankle boots, so I was pleased to eavesdrop on one particular English tabloid sports writer scream down his phone at his desk assistant in London to find a direct flight to Recife "or I'll go fucking ballistic".
(12) It’s a conversation that millions of Pratchett fans would ache to overhear.
(13) Overhearing Amir's comments, Parisa, 24, and her boyfriend, Mohammad, 25, erupt into an argument.
(14) Returning to uni after a three-month stint working shifts at a fish factory, I was shocked to walk through campus and overhear tales of leisurely trips to South America and South-East Asia.” Ramsden adds: “Apart from my small group of friends, who all spent the summer working to fund their university living, it seemed like everyone around me came from a background completely alien to me.” Tom Dixon, a sabbatical officer at the University of Leeds who receives a maintenance loan for his politics degree, says: “I’ve spent my entire life watching people who are less deserving being handed things on a plate just because of what they were born into.
(15) In Sense and Sensibility Elinor overhears Willoughby discussing the gift of a horse with her sister and saying, "Marianne, the horse is still yours."
(16) I feel uncomfortable being in the City or Canary Wharf,” he says, “and overhearing conversations in coffee shops and wine bars.” He finds “the certainty, the self-confidence, the reluctance to open up to alternative views” depressing.
(17) When you overhear them in the corridor discussing something they learned in your lesson, when you see their interests and talents bloom as a result of the input you have been able to give.
(18) She must be really good at giving the editor head Seeing yourself discussed online is like overhearing someone talking about you while you’re changing in the school locker room: you’re trapped, you have to stay and listen but you do it with this horrible, growing nausea.
(19) Don't worry," says a passer-by overhearing the conversation.
(20) "A Bunny's Tale" takes the form of a diary and moves from Steinem's initial decision to adopt the alias of Marie Catherine Ochs to her last day on the job when she overhears another Bunny say of a customer, "He's a real gentleman.