spy on

Idioms  

1. Secretly or furtively observe someone or something, as in The children loved spying on the grownups, or The company sent him to spy on the competitor's sales force. [Early 1600s]

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Example Sentences

Battle also states in the complaint that Rojas repeatedly asked him to “spy on and video and record” fellow Councilmember Jim Dear.

From Los Angeles Times

She further alleged that Schmidt had built a “backdoor” to Google servers with a team of company engineers that allowed him to spy on her and anyone with a Google account.

From Los Angeles Times

Former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt was accused in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a former girlfriend and business partner of using a Gmail “backdoor” to spy on her and company employees.

From Los Angeles Times

On Monday OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said the company planned to add language to its agreement, including explicitly prohibiting the use of its systems to spy on Americans.

From BBC

But it shouldn’t even take a market-leading piece of technology to work through one of the simplest equations imaginable: You say you’ll give your product to someone as long as he doesn’t use it to spy on the whole country or automate death.

From Slate

Related Words

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