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Our privacy is now at risk in unprecedented ways, but, sadly, the legal system is lagging behind the pace of innovation. Indeed,

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问题     Our privacy is now at risk in unprecedented ways, but, sadly, the legal system is lagging behind the pace of innovation. Indeed, the last major privacy law, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, was passed in 1986! While an update to the law is in the works, it only aims to add some more protection to electronic communication like emails. This still does not shield our privacy from other, possibly wicked, ways that our data can be collected and put to use. Some legislators would much rather not have legal restrictions that could "threaten the lifeblood of the Internet; data".
    Even though the practices of many companies such as Facebook are legal, there is something disconcerting about them. Privacy should have a deeper purpose than the one ascribed to it by those who treat it as a currency to be traded for innovation, which in many circumstances seems to actually mean corporate interests.
    Georgetown University law professor Julie E. Cohen criticizes the dominant position held by theorists and legislators who treat privacy as just an instrument used to advance some other value, such as liberty or control. Framed this way, privacy is relegated to one of many defenses we have from things like Facebook’s recent attempts to ramp up its use of facial-recognition software and collect further data about us without our explicit consent. As long as privacy gets in the way of a different desirable goal like innovation, it is no longer useful and can be disregarded.
    Cohen doesn’t think we should treat privacy as a dispensable instrument. To the contrary, she argues privacy is irreducible to a "fixed attribute(such as control)whose boundaries can be crisply defined by the application of deductive logic. Privacy is shorthand for breathing room to engage in the process of self-development. " What Cohen means is that since life and contexts are always changing, privacy cannot be reductively conceived as one specific type of thing. It is better understood as an important buffer that gives us space to develop an identity that is somewhat separate from the surveillance, judgment, and values of our society and culture.
    In light of these considerations, what’s really at stake in a feature like Facebook’s location-tracking app? You might think it is a good idea to willfully hand over your data in exchange for personalized coupons or promotions. But consumption and quiet, alone time are both important parts of how we define ourselves. If how we do that becomes subject to ever-present monitoring it can, if even unconsciously, change our behaviors and self-perceptioa In this sense, we will be developing an identity that is absent of privacy and subject to surveillance.
    Whether we like it or not constant data collection about everything we do shapes and produces our actions. We are different people when under surveillance than we are when enjoying some privacy. And Cohen’s argument illuminates how the breathing room provided by privacy is essential to being a complete, fulfilled person.
It can be inferred from Paragraph 5 that Facebook’s location-tracking app______.
选项 A、facilitates the process of consumption
B、defines our consumption and alone time
C、accustoms us to ever-present surveillance
D、deviates us from the path to our desired society
答案D
解析 第五段以Facebook的位置跟踪程序(指代“隐私侵犯行为”)为例，首先介绍某一些人的错误观点：不在意隐私泄露，甚至乐于“出卖隐私换取便利”，而后转折进行反驳：“消费”和“安静、独立时间”是人们进行自我定义的两个重要组成部分，如果我们牺牲了这两项，而被迫接受无处不在的监视，那一定会改变我们的行为以及自我认识；末句进行总结：这样，我们将会建立一种缺乏隐私、屈从于监视的身份，而这并非是我们所期许生存的社会形态，所以[D]选项最符合文意。
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