spy on

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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

“He took me into this place called Outer Time, where we could spy on all of history. It’s hard to describe, but it was kind of like being in an airplane and looking down on everything happening down on the ground. Or, I don’t know, like Google Earth, where you can focus in close on one spot, then zoom out and get the broader view too.”

From Literature

The issue is with Anthropic’s negotiations on how its products can be used, drawing a line at it being used to spy on Americans en masse or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement, according to Axios.

From MarketWatch

Cathy sustains a similar injury in the film, but this time, she’s an adult woman, who falls from the Thrushcross Grange garden wall after attempting to spy on its grown residents Edgar and Isabella.

From Los Angeles Times

A report published last August said Chinese students in the UK were being pressured to spy on their classmates.

From BBC