ringing n.— «Intensive investigations and lengthy surveillance has uncovered a team of people who arrange for vehicles to be stolen in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire before changing the vehicle’s identity. This process, known as ringing...
Big Mother n.— «Advocates of parental spying say kids’ use of technology requires parents to keep up with gadgets of their own. Critics, however, have coined a term for the trend. Instead of Big Brother, they call such surveillance “Big...
lane n.— «The man at the center of the growing furor over the National Security Agency’s surveillance of Americans’ domestic phone calls, Gen. Michael Hayden, is an Air Force officer who never flew a fighter jet or dropped a bomb. He rose...
secret squirrel n.— «All of us on the base knew that, like the detainees, we were likely to be under surveillance wherever we were. Watch what you’re saying, soldiers would joke, because the “secret squirrels” are listening...
Londonistan n.— «Such a nightmare neighbour forced him to abandon his surveillance of Abu Walid’s home in Wembley, which he nicknames “Londonistan,” and flee the capital.» —“London granny blew my cover, says French...
Judas window n.— «Classroom surveillance is nothing new. Most classroom doors have a glass section—a Judas window in chalkie parlance—allowing management to surreptitiously spy on Sir’s lesson.» —“Yes, head boys must have the latest...