0 (with on) to listen in order to overhear a private conversation -- aflytte; lytte
The child eavesdropped on her parents’ discussion.
There is no right whatsoever to eavesdrop pointlessly for titillation.
We know that in the past, sometimes legitimately, police officers have eavesdropped on cell conversations between prisoners.
It is possible to eavesdrop on conversations and to investigate e-mails and other technologies at some considerable distance.
Included, too, would be one's picture, either from a passport photograph or from a casual camera; and one's eavesdropped conversations.
In 1351, in the famous statute which inaugurated the justice of the peace, it was made an offence to eavesdrop.
Detectives will he able, if the draft goes ahead, to eavesdrop on doctors, psychiatrists, social workers and journalists.
This fact alone imbues the recording with that unique affect we sometimes find hidden in old photographs, the feeling that we are spying or eavesdropping on the dead.
Hosts, agents and other entities are vulnerable to a number of attacks ranging from eavesdropping communications to stealing sensitive and private data and inflicting damage by design through viruses.
