Its critics would have preferred a less stirring title, perhaps something along the lines of the Enhanced Snooping, Library and Hospital Database Seizure Act.

Reminds me of the time, I think last year but maybe earlier, that The Guardian featured a luxury Telluride property in its Snooping Around section.

Snooping has become a pernicious habit with government officials, a lucrative industry for technocratic compilers of dossiers and a titillating way of life for too many nosy people.

As Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, Berners-Lee also published a set of personal design notes titled "No Snooping", in which he explains his views on commercial use of packet inspection and references Phorm.

In Which the Wizards Do Some Snooping, and Cimorene Snoops Back LOT the next three weeks, Cimorene spent most of her free time studying the fireproofing spell and collecting the ingredients she would need to cast it.

So I started doing some snooping around of my own.

One of them went up snooping around on the third floor.

They've been snooping around, trying to get some of our men to talk.

Did that mean he knew she had been snooping around?

"How come you been snooping around in my other business?"

In that way no one could think he was snooping.

Make sure that no one is snooping near his house.

The same as he snoops into everything else around here.

Does he know I'm supposed to be snooping on him?

I plan to really snoop around and ask lots of questions.

So, I see you've found what you were snooping for.

"So who was the dog snooping around here the other day?"

But I ask you not to snoop further on private matters.

She was just another farm child snooping on others' business.

Snooping in kids' stuff is more common than you'd think.

"What right have you got to come snooping around here at this time of evening?"

I decided to break for lunch, then come back and snoop around some more.

Anyway, I've got to go in and snoop around a bit.

"I would feel a lot easier without them snooping around."

If he had been snooping around some of the other sources, we would have heard something by now.

It was always easier to snoop around from the inside.

He got us all under cover when Survey was snooping around.

He asked, "Find anything else interesting while you were snooping?"

So what exactly is the problem with reporters snooping around?

Meanwhile, I can snoop around on the computer at work.