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The Internet has turned into a massive surveillance tool. We’re constantly monitored, sometimes by corporations wanting to sell
The Internet has turned into a massive surveillance tool. We’re constantly monitored, sometimes by corporations wanting to sell
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2021-09-17
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The Internet has turned into a massive surveillance tool. We’re constantly monitored, sometimes by corporations wanting to sell us stuff and sometimes by governments wanting to keep an eye on us. Momentary conversation is over. Wholesale surveillance is the norm.
It’s about to get worse, though. The Internet of Things refers to a world where much more than our computers and cell phones is Internet-enabled. Soon there will be Internet-connected modules on our cars and home appliances. In its extreme, everything can be connected to the Internet. It’s true that the "Internet of Things" will make a lot of wonderful things possible, but it also gives the governments and corporations that follow our every move something they don’t yet have: eyes and ears.
In the near term, the sheer volume of data will limit the sorts of conclusions that can be drawn. The invasiveness of "Internet of Things" new technologies depends on asking the right questions. For example, if a private investigator is watching you in the physical world, she or he might observe odd behaviour and investigate further based on that. Such occasional observations are harder to achieve when you’re filtering databases based on pre-programmed queries. These analytical limitations also mean that companies like Google and Facebook will benefit more from the Internet of Things than individuals—not only because they have access to more data, but also because they have more sophisticated query technology.
In the longer term, the Internet of Things means ubiquitous surveillance. If an object "knows" you have purchased it, and communicates via either Wi-Fi or the mobile network, then whoever or whatever it is communicating with will know where you are. Your car will know who is in it, who is driving, and what traffic laws that driver is following or ignoring. Fast food restaurants will know what you usually order, and exactly how to entice you to order more.
Will you know any of this? It depends. Lots of devices have, and will have, privacy settings. But these settings are remarkable not in how much privacy they afford, but in how much they deny. You’d think that your privacy settings would keep random strangers from learning everything about you, but it only keeps random strangers who don’t pay for the privilege—or don’t work for the government and have the ability to demand the data. Power is what matters here: you’ll be able to keep the powerless from invading your privacy, but you’ll have no ability to prevent the powerful from doing it again and again.
The author implies that privacy settings______.
选项
A、can inform people of their being under surveillance
B、can protect people from being monitored
C、are helping companies collect personal data
D、are essential for the Internet of Things
答案
C
解析
细节题。根据题干可定位至第五段。第二句提到“许多设备已经拥有或即将拥有隐私设置”,随后作者笔锋一转指出隐私设置与人们对其功能预想的反差:它们更多是为了“否定隐私权”服务,而不是为了“保护隐私权”,接着对此情况展开解释:掌握用户隐私的过程和掌握用户浏览习惯及通过搜索引擎掌握其搜索习惯一样可以在暗中实现而不为人所察觉;只要肯付费、有技术,隐私设置便成为窃取隐私的帮凶。所以C项正确。
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