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The Internet has turned into a massive surveillance tool. We’re constantly monitored, sometimes by corporations wanting to sell

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问题    The Internet has turned into a massive surveillance tool. We’re constantly monitored, sometimes by corporations wanting to sell us stuff and sometimes by governments wanting to keep an eye on us. Momentary conversation is over. Wholesale surveillance is the norm.
   It’s about to get worse, though. The Internet of Things refers to a world where much more than our computers and cell phones is Internet-enabled. Soon there will be Internet-connected modules on our cars and home appliances. In its extreme, everything can be connected to the Internet. It’s true that the "Internet of Things" will make a lot of wonderful things possible, but it also gives the governments and corporations that follow our every move something they don’t yet have: eyes and ears.
   In the near term, the sheer volume of data will limit the sorts of conclusions that can be drawn. The invasiveness of "Internet of Things" new technologies depends on asking the right questions. For example, if a private investigator is watching you in the physical world, she or he might observe odd behaviour and investigate further based on that. Such occasional observations are harder to achieve when you’re filtering databases based on pre-programmed queries. These analytical limitations also mean that companies like Google and Facebook will benefit more from the Internet of Things than individuals—not only because they have access to more data, but also because they have more sophisticated query technology.
   In the longer term, the Internet of Things means ubiquitous surveillance. If an object "knows" you have purchased it, and communicates via either Wi-Fi or the mobile network, then whoever or whatever it is communicating with will know where you are. Your car will know who is in it, who is driving, and what traffic laws that driver is following or ignoring. Fast food restaurants will know what you usually order, and exactly how to entice you to order more.
   Will you know any of this? It depends. Lots of devices have, and will have, privacy settings. But these settings are remarkable not in how much privacy they afford, but in how much they deny. You’d think that your privacy settings would keep random strangers from learning everything about you, but it only keeps random strangers who don’t pay for the privilege—or don’t work for the government and have the ability to demand the data. Power is what matters here: you’ll be able to keep the powerless from invading your privacy, but you’ll have no ability to prevent the powerful from doing it again and again.
   
The example of the private investigator’s act is mentioned to highlight______.
选项 A、the limitation of program-based queries
B、the significance of access to more data
C、the way technology companies collect data
D、the complexity of the Internet of Things world
答案A
解析 细节题。第三段重点介绍物联网新技术的发展在短期内的影响：庞大的数据会使结论受限。随后解释原因：借“私家侦探侦查过程(通过直接观察发现偶发异常从而得出结果)”反衬出“‘经过编程的查询(工具)’如遇用户过滤数据库，则监控工作会变得困难”，后再用“具备高级问询技术的谷歌和脸谱网将会受益”说明“程序化问询的局限性”，凸显“高级查询技术”在物联网时代的至关重要性。所以A项符合题意。
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