Why we can't resist listening in on our neighbours Eavesdropping has a bad name. It is a
form of human communication in which the information gained is stolen, and where such …

Dangerous Talk examines the'lewd, ungracious, detestable, opprobrious, and rebellious-
sounding'speech of ordinary men and women who spoke scornfully of kings and queens …

The world of international politics has recently been rocked by a seemingly endless series of
scandals involving auditory surveillance: the NSA's warrantless wiretapping is merely the …

Why do so many swear words involve sex, bodily functions and religion? Why are some
words rude and others aren't? Why can launching into expletives be so shocking-and …

theories are always grounded in their sites of usage in ways that remake the theories and
make it impossible simply to transport those theories unchanged from one site to another …

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iPhone. recent episode of the dystopian television series “Black Mirror” begins with a soldier …

In this present age of sophisticated technology, governments and their agencies have the
capabilities to track citizens not only on the street (CCTV surveillance equipment is …

Behind the celebrated code-breaking at Bletchley Park lies another secret… The men and
women of the 'Y'(for Wireless') Service were sent out across the world to run listening …

In 1964, of the more than 85 million telephones in the United States and Canada, less than
one percent were used regularly by deaf people. If they didn't ask their hearing neighbors for …