Vocabulary on 7th March 2025 (Words: 1. #INTERCEPTED; 2. #EAVESDROPPING; 3. #SIFT; 4. #INVASIVE)

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Word Meanings:

1. INTERCEPTED= আটকানো; রূদ্ধ; close; choked; shut; corked; obstructed (someone or something) so as to prevent them from continuing to a destination.

2. EAVESDROPPING = আড়ি পাতা; secretly listen to a conversation; spy; intrude; monitor; tap; wiretap; record; overhear; snoop; earwig; stickybeak;

3. SIFT=চালুনির সাহায্যে আলাদা করা; examine (something) thoroughly so as to isolate that which is most important or useful; search through; look through; rummage through; root around in;

4. INVASIVE = আক্রমণাত্মক; আক্রমণকর; tending to intrude on a person's thoughts or privacy.

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Sentences:

1. Israel’s military surveillance agency has used a vast collection of INTERCEPTED Palestinian communications to build a powerful artificial intelligence tool similar to ChatGPT that it hopes will transform its spying capabilities, an investigation by the Guardian can reveal.

2. The elite EAVESDROPPING agency, comparable in its capabilities with the US National Security Agency (NSA), accelerated its development of the system after the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023.

3. Unit 8200 is not alone among spy agencies experimenting with generative AI technology. In the US, the CIA has rolled out a ChatGPT-like tool to SIFT through open-source information.

4. Campbell, from Human Rights Watch, said using surveillance material to train an AI model was “INVASIVE and incompatible with human rights”, and that as an occupying power Israel is obligated to protect Palestinians’ privacy rights.