Several years ago, when we were still living in precedented times, I went out to dinner with a friend and spent the whole evening eavesdropping on someone else’s extremely awkward first date. It was a ...

I had to go to college to learn the techniques of guilt-free eavesdropping. It was there that I had a writing instructor who used to give us eavesdropping assignments. About halfway through the ...

The list of sophisticated eavesdropping techniques has grown steadily over years: wiretaps, hacked phones, bugs in the wall—even bouncing lasers off of a building’s glass to pick up conversations ...