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Transatlantic friction between companies and regulators has grown as Europe’s data guardians have become more assertive. Frances

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问题     Transatlantic friction between companies and regulators has grown as Europe’s data guardians have become more assertive. Francesca Bignami, a professor at George Washington University’s law school, says that the explosion of digital technologies has made it impossible for watchdogs to keep a close eye on every web company operating in their backyard. So instead they are relying more on scapegoating prominent wrongdoers in the hope that this will deter others.
    But regulators such as Peter Schaar, who heads Germany’s federal data-protection agency, say the gulf is exaggerated. Some European countries, he points out, now have rules that make companies who suffer big losses of customer data to report these to the authorities. The inspiration for these measures comes from America.
    Yet even Mr. Schaar admits that the internet’s global scale means that there will need to be changes on both sides of the Atlantic. He hints that Europe might adopt a more flexible regulatory stance if America were to create what amounts to an independent data-protection body along European lines. In Europe, where the flagship Data Protection Directive came into effect in 1995, the European Commission is conducting a review of its privacy policies. In America Congress has begun debating a new privacy bill arid the Federal Trade Commission is considering an overhaul of its rules.
    Even if America and Europe do narrow their differences, internet firms will still have to struggle with other data watchdogs. In Asia countries that belong to APEC are trying to develop a set of regional guidelines for privacy rules under an initiative known as the Data Privacy Pathfinder. Some countries such as Australia and New Zealand have longstanding privacy laws, but many emerging nations have yet to roll out fully fledged versions of their own. Mr. Polonetsky sees Asia as "a new privacy battleground", with America and Europe both keen to tempt countries towards their own regulatory model.
    Canada already has something of a hybrid privacy regime, which may explain why its data-protection commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, has been so influential on the international stage. She marshaled the signatories of the Google Buzz letter and took Facebook to task last year for breaching Canada’s data privacy laws, which led the company to change its policies.
    Ms Stoddart argues that American companies often trip up on data-privacy issues because of "their brimming optimism that the whole world wants what they have rolled out in America." Yet the same optimism has helped to create global companies that have brought huge benefits to consumers, while also presenting privacy regulators with tough choices. Shoehorning such firms into old privacy frameworks will not benefit either them or their users.
By saying "a new privacy battleground" (Para. 4), Mr. Polonetsky probably means in Asia________.
选项 A、there will be a lot of friction between internet regulators and companies
B、different countries will adopt different sets of privacy rules and regulations
C、there will be controversy over privacy laws to be established in the area
D、adopting American or European regulatory models may be a controversy
答案D
解析 根据题干定位到第四段。该段第四句提到的battleground应是欧洲和美国争夺的战场——争夺亚洲国家采取自己的管理模式，即亚洲国家要采用哪种管理模式，可能会引发论战，由此判断D项正确。A项出自第一段第一句，企业和监管者之间的摩擦也越来越深，尽管这是事实，但由第四段第四句的with短语可看出，对立的双方是“美国”与“欧洲”，而非“企业”和“监管者”，故A项可排除。第四段第三句说，虽然像澳大利亚、新西兰这样的国家早就有了隐私法律，许多新兴国家还没有制定出它们自己的比较完善的法律版本，因此B项的内容，原文并未给出定论(还没制定出，也就不知道是否采用不同的法规)，也不是“隐私战场”的意思。C项有一定的干扰性，但其中所说的controversy针对的是法律，而不是文中所说的管理模式选择上的冲突和争议，故C项也可排除。
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