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People are being lured(引诱)onto Facebook with the promise of a fun, free service, without realizing they’ re paying for it by giv

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问题     People are being lured(引诱)onto Facebook with the promise of a fun, free service, without realizing they’ re paying for it by giving up loads of personal information. Facebook then attempts to make money by selling their data to advertisers that want to send targeted messages.
    Most Facebook users don’t realize this is happening. Even if they know what the company is up to, they still have no idea what they’re paying for Facebook, because people don’ t really know what their personal data is worth.
    The biggest problem, however, is that the company keeps changing the rules. Early on, you could keep everything private. That was the great thing about Facebook—you could create your own little private network. Last year, the company changed its privacy rules so that many things— your city, your photo, your friends’ names—were set, by default(默认), to be shared with everyone on the Internet.
    According to Facebook’s vice-president Elliot Schrage, the company is simply making changes to improve its service, and if people don’t share information, they have a "less satisfying experience. "
    Some critics think this is more about Facebook looking to make more money. Its original business model, which involved selling ads and putting them at the side of the page, totally failed. Who wants to look at ads when they’ re online connecting with their friends?
    The privacy issue has already landed Facebook in hot water in Washington. In April, Senator Charles Schumer called on Facebook to change its privacy policy. He also urged the Federal Trade Commission to set guidelines for social-networking sites. "I think the senator rightly communicated that we had not been clear about what the new products were and how people could choose to use them or not to use them, " Schrage admits.
    I suspect that whatever Facebook has done so far to invade our privacy, it’s only the beginning. Which is why I’m considering deactivating(撤销)my account. Facebook is a handy site, but I’ m upset by the idea that my information is in the hands of people I don’t trust. That’s too high a price to pay.  
What does Senator Charles Schumer advocate?
选项 A、Setting guidelines for advertising on websites.
B、Formulating regulations for social-networking sites.
C、Banning the sharing of users’ personal information.
D、Removing ads from all social-networking sites.
答案B
解析 事实细节题。由题干中的Senator Charles Schumer和advocate定位到第6段第2、3句。第6段指出，四月，国会议员查理斯．舒默要求Facebook更改其隐私条款，并同时督促联邦贸易委员会制定出社交网站的指导方针。由此可见，议员主张政府制定法律对社交网站进行指导。B项中的formulating regulations是原文中set guidelines的同义转换，故为答案。C项“禁止共享用户个人信息”，文中只提到查理斯·舒默号召脸谱网更改其隐私条款，但并未说明是否禁止共享用户个人信息，可以排除。A、D两项在文中均未提及。
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