0 past simple and past participle of snoop --
1 to look around a place secretly, in order to discover things or find out information about someone or something: --
On the second day out, an enemy twin-engine bomber snooped the task force and received a hail of fire from some of the screening destroyers.
Not only is he to be treated in this clandestine way, but apparently he is to be snooped on.
Since then the expenditure has gone up to £100,000, but we are not told whether the cost per person snooped is the same or not.
These devices are such that those people who are being snooped upon—for that is exactly what it is—may not know what is happening.
The cost therefore worked out at over £1 per person snooped.
Why do they have to be snooped on if they are doing a legal act?
Despite the use of passwords, confidentiality might be breached on the internet and mobile phone conversations have been snooped on.
Living in close proximity to each other, neighbours or residents will be snooped upon, discussed in great detail, and perhaps even ridiculed.
