LOVEINT

English Etymology Parody of en SIGINT, en HUMINT, etc., suggesting "love intelligence". Noun - en US humorous The use of government espionage tools or techniques to investigate one's love interests. Anyway, when analysts thought about abusing the system, they were far less interested in what it could do for them professionally than in what it could do for them personally. This led to the practice known as LOVEINT, a gross joke on HUMINT and SIGINT and a travesty of intelligence, in which analysts used the agency’s programs to surveil their current and former lovers along with objects of more casual affection—reading their emails, listening in on their phone calls, and stalking them online. References Usenet newsgroups: Anagrams en eilnotv violent en syllabic abbreviations