LOVEINT

The term LOVEINT describes the practice that employees of a secret use their extensive monitoring capabilities to spy on her lover or spouse. The name was inspired by intelligence concepts such as SIGINT, COMINT or HUMINT.

National Security Agency

Although there are only about a handful of such cases were at the NSA over the past decade, this term was coined there. In September 2013, the NSA made ​​after a request by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley announce, since 2003 there have been twelve cases in which partners of intelligence officials were monitored by this

Federal Intelligence Service

In September 2007 it was announced that an employee of the BND is said to have abused its powers of supervision privately to spy on e -mail traffic of his wife's lover.