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Brave New World of Biometrics There are always people who can find a reason to criticize strongly any new technology as too
Brave New World of Biometrics There are always people who can find a reason to criticize strongly any new technology as too
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2012-09-10
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Brave New World of Biometrics
There are always people who can find a reason to criticize strongly any new technology as too personally invasive, but I’m all for biometrics. Among the amazing things biometrics enables us to do is to scan a person’s iris—the colored part of the eye—which displays a natural pattern that is even more distinct than the fingerprint.
Imagine what that will do to cut down on credit card fraud if the pattern of a person’s iris must be scanned before the credit card can be used. Imagine how foolproof it will make Internet purchases, which are now extremely vulnerable to fraudulent abuse. Biometrics’ ability to prevent theft against the government also is endless. When the state of Connecticut required people , to be fingerprinted in order to receive welfare benefits, 25 percent of the recipients dropped off the rolls ( many of whom, we have to assume, were receiving benefits improperly).
Biometrics also will give Jaw-enforcement officers terrific new powers to track and capture international terrorists. Imagine what miniature face scans embedded secretly in passports will do to passport fraud, and the ability of terrorists to flee from one country to the next.
Does this mean the government and corporations will have more "personal information" about you on file? Sure, to the extent that you consider your face or your iris to be personal "information". But all the hubbub about "invasion of privacy" is vastly overblown.
Ever since the invention of telemarketing and the ceaseless parade of phone calls bombarding my home day and night began, I’ve considered my privacy to be a thing of the past. But in the scheme of things, it is a minor inconvenience, not a major assault.
Of course, if biometrics is too much for some people, they always can cut up their credit cards, disconnect their phones and computers and move to the Rockies and live alone away from people and society. Meanwhile, I’ll continue to enjoy all the benefits modern technology offers.
It can be inferred from the passage that the author believes______.
选项
A、new technologies tend to be personally invasive
B、the government has too much personal information about people on files
C、one’s face or iris is not really personal information
D、all talk about the invasion of privacy is groundless
答案
C
解析
本题是细节推理题。题目是:我们可以从文章推理出作者认为______。选择C的依据是第五段的最后两句:“Sure,to the extent that you consider your face or your iris to be personal‘information’.But all the hubbub about‘invasion of privacy’ is vastly overblown.”当然是的,如果你认为你的脸或虹膜为个人“信息”的话。但所有这些有关“侵犯隐私”的叫闹声大都言过其实。
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