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0 pointsbartread5y ago0 comments

Brit 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.

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chiefalchemist5y ago· 1 in thread

Snooping 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.

chrisseaton5y 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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kitd5y ago

More 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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