the process of capturing data passed over a local network and looking for any information that may be useful, for example in order to diagnose problems or find out which websites a user is accessingA “computer network expert” told the Telegraph that the Beeb might be deploying a modified version of a tactic known as “packet sniffing”, which looks at the nature of data passing through Wi-Fi networks without actually intercepting it.
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United Kingdom on 08/08/2016