首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Google recently introduced a new service that adds social-networking features to its popular Gmail system. The service is called
Google recently introduced a new service that adds social-networking features to its popular Gmail system. The service is called
admin
2014-08-28
18
问题
Google recently introduced a new service that adds social-networking features to its popular Gmail system. The service is called Buzz, and within hours of its release, people were howling about privacy issues—because, in its original form, Buzz showed everyone the list of people you e-mail most frequently. Even people who weren’t cheating on their spouses or secretly applying for new jobs found this a little unnerving.
Google backtracked and changed the software, and apologized for the misstep, claiming that, it just never occurred to us that people might get upset. "The public reaction was something we did not anticipate. But we’ve reacted very quickly to people’s unhappiness," says Bradley Horowitz, the vice president for product management at Google.
Same goes for Facebook. In December, Facebook rolled out a new set of privacy settings. A spokesman says the move was intended to "empower people" by giving them more "granular(精细的)" control over their personal information. But many viewed the changes as a sneaky attempt to push members to expose more information about themselves—partly because its default settings had lots of data, like your photo, city, gender, and information about your family and relationships, set up to be shared with everyone on the Internet.(Sure, you could change those settings, but it was still creepy.)Facebook’s spokesman says the open settings reflect "shifting social norms around privacy. " Five years after Facebook was founded, he says, "we’ve noticed that people are not only sharing more information but also are becoming more comfortable about sharing more information with more people. " Nevertheless, the changes prompted 10 consumer groups to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.
What’s happening is that our privacy has become a kind of currency. It’s what we use to pay for online services. Google charges nothing for Gmail; instead, it reads your e-mail and sends you advertisements based on keywords in your private messages.
The genius of Google, Facebook, and others is that they’ve created services that are so useful or entertaining that people will give up some privacy in order to use them. Now the trick is to get people to give up more—in effect, to keep raising the price of the service.
These companies will never stop trying to chip away at our information. Their entire business model is based on the notion of "monetizing" our privacy. To succeed they must slowly change the notion of privacy itself—the "social norm," as Facebook puts it—so that what we’re giving up doesn’t seem so valuable. Then they must gain our trust. Thus each new erosion of privacy comes delivered, paradoxically, with rhetoric(华丽的词藻)about how Company X really cares about privacy. I’m not sure whether Orwell would be appalled or impressed. And who knew Big Brother would be not a big government agency, but a bunch of kids in Silicon Valley?
According to the passage, the original form of Buzz_________.
选项
A、was released to test how people regarded their private rights
B、revolutionized the concept of the social networking function
C、ruined the reputation of Google’s well-known Gmail system
D、aroused people’s anger when it was added to Gmail system
答案
D
解析
事实细节题。由定位句可知,该服务推出后不久,人们就怨声载道,原因是其原始形式会将你最常发邮件的人显示给所有人看,这侵犯了人们的隐私,D)与原文意思相符,故为答案。A)“发行用于检测人们对隐私权的看法”,原文未提及,故排除;B)“对社交网络功能的概念进行了变革"和C)“毁了Gmail系统的好名声”,均是对原文的曲解,故排除。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/bnm7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
没有哪个国家比中国对汽车更痴狂了(bonkers),这里新到达中产阶层(middle—class)的人们的梦想就是一辆闪闪发光的新汽车。但仅仅有汽车对这些渴望超越中产阶层的人们是不够的,牌照号(licenseplate)就成为与汽车一样能够象征身份和地位
中国社会科学院(ChineseAcademyofSocialSciences)最近一项报告指出,80后和90后(post一80sand90s)毕业生和全国的学生们的就业前景日益严峻。社科院的《社会蓝皮书》(BlueBookofChina’
Somestudentsarenotadequatelypreparedforcollege.Shouldweturnthemaway?Deceivethem?Ormodifyourproduct?Americans
A、BecauseAmericannegotiatorshavenopatience.B、BecauseAmericannegotiatorswouldn’tcompromise.C、Becauseforeignnegotiato
TheInternetandcellphonesarebringingpeopletogether,not【C1】______usapart—atleast,accordingtoanewsurveyrecentlyby
Inthe1980s,homeschoolingmadeacomebackintheU.S.whenreligiouslyconservativeparentsconvincedstatestoapproveandgi
Tworecentinnovationshavegainedalotofattentionforthewaytheyempowerwomen.Oneismicrocredit(小额贷款),asystemhelping
A、Whattheman’splansarefortonight.B、Whythemandoesnotwanttoplaytennis.C、Whytheydonothavetimetoplaytennisa
A、ShelikesJapanesefoodbest.B、Shewantstopayforthemeal.C、Shedoesn’tlikecookingbyherself.D、Shewantstoeatsomew
随机试题
4只小猴吃桃,第1只猴吃的是其他猴吃的1/3,第2只猴吃的是其他猴吃的1/4,第3只猴吃的是其他猴吃的1/5,第4只猴将剩下的46个桃全吃了,则4只猴子共吃了()桃。
某日13时10分,罗某驾驶一辆中型客车从高速公路0公里处出发,下午14时10分行至该高速公路125公里加200米处时,发生追尾碰撞,机动车驶出西南侧路外边坡,造成11人死亡、2人受伤。罗某的主要违法行为是什么?
以滋阴养血、补心安神为主要功效,最宜选用的方剂是
女婴,出生6天,其母换尿片时发现其阴道流出少量血性分泌物而向护士咨询。护士正确的解释是
装修公司甲在完成一项工程后,将剩余的木地板、厨卫用具等卖给了物业管理公司乙。但甲营业执照上的核准经营范围并无销售木地板、厨卫用具等业务。甲、乙的买卖行为法律效力如何?
根据《德国民法典》规定,下列说法中正确的是()。
根据《旅行社条例》规定,旅行社委派的导游人员和领队人员未持有国家规定的导游证或者领队证的,由旅游行政管理部门责令改正,对旅行社处()的罚:款。
下列关于壮族的描述,正确的有()。
辨认
WhatmakesAmericansspendnearlyhalftheirfooddollarsonmealsawayfromhome?TheanswerslieinthewayAmericanslivetod
最新回复
(
0
)