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Snooping? Now doesn't that reek of newspeak? If anyone of us did that to someone else it would (at very the least) be stalking. When you track and log everyth
by chiefalchemist 6y ago
Snooping? Now doesn't that reek of newspeak? If anyone of us did that to someone else it would (at very the least) be stalking.
When you track and log everything - for up to a year - that's not snooping.
That's surveillance.
Using candy-coated language for such things is as (almost as) harmful as the acts themselves.
- jimbob45 6y agoI don’t want to derail a very interesting thread but IMHO snooping has a darker connotation than surveilling.
- londons_explore 6y agoThe night security guard surveills the premisis. Your school nemesis snoops on what you're up to to try to embarrass or one-up you in some way. Surveillance can be good or bad. Snooping is always bad.
- chiefalchemist 6y agoYou've left the context out of your position. This is a couple ISPs in bed with the government. Under what conditions is that good surveillance?
- NeutronStar 6y agoNo, he was explaining it out of context. Not every comment HAS to take context into account.
- novok 6y agoNo it's just the word that the british tend to use for spying. Much like lavatory vs restroom. Ex: Snooper's charter
- chrisseaton 6y ago> Using candy-coated language for such things is as (almost as) harmful as the acts themselves. 'Snooping' isn't candy-coated language in British English, and this is a British article. It's just another way to say surveillance. You're imagining a meaning that isn't there.
- bartread 6y agoBrit here: can concur. 'Snooping' is pejorative in British English. It implies that (at the very least) you are sticking your nose where it doesn't belong, and always carries a hint of sinister overtone.
- chiefalchemist 6y agoSnooping is what your neighbor does. Surveillance is a whole other level. When your ISP is logging your every move for a year. And making it available to the government. Regardless of country, that's not snooping. It's surveillance. The fact that some of you accept snooping as being legitimate description simply proves my point about candy-coating it.
- chrisseaton 6y ago> When your ISP is logging your every move for a year. And making it available to the government. Regardless of country, that's not snooping. But that's just not true in British English. I don't know anything about you but your comments imply you're not British? If so, you'll just have to accept you don't know the meaning of these words in written British English. You're mistaken. I don't know what else to tell you?
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- kitd 6y agoMore than that: the IPA, the legislation that allowed this surveillance, is very well known in the UK as "The Snooper's Charter". Snooping describes this perfectly.
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