四六级考试

【单选题】Shoppers who have flocked to online stores for their holiday shopping are losing privacy with every mouse click, according to a new report.
①The study by the Washington basedElectronic Priyacy InformationCenter scrutinized privacy policies on 100 of the most popular online shopping sites and compared those policies with a set of basic privacy principles that have come to be known as "fair information practices".
②The group found that none of the 100 sites met all of the basic criteria for privacy protection, which include giving notice of what information is collected and how it is used, offering consumers a choice over whether the information will be used in certain ways, allowing access to data that give consumers a chance to see and correct the in formation collected, and instituting the kind of security measures that ensure that the information won’t fall into the wrong hands.
"This study showed that somebody else, other than Santa, is reading yourChristmas list," said JeffChester, executive director of theCenter for MediaEducation, which also worked on the survey.
The online privacy of children is protected by Federal TradeCommission rules, but adults do not share the same degree of privacy protection. The government, like the online shopping industry, favors self-regulation over imposition of further government restrictions on electronic commerce.
Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the privacy group, said the study showed that self-regulations had faileD、"We need legislation to enforce fair information practices," he saiD、"Consumers are at greater risk than they were in 1997," when the group released its first report.
The survey also asked whether the 100 sites used "profile based" advertising, and whether the sites incorporated "cookies" technology, which gives Web sites basic information on visitors. Profiling is the practice of gathering information about consumers’ interests by tracking their movements online. The information is then used to create targeted advertising on Web sites.
All but 18 of the top shopping sites did display a privacy policy, a major improvement over the early days of electronic commerce, when such policies were scarce.But that did not satisfy the privacy group. "Companies are posting privacy policies, but these policies are not the same thing as fair information practices," Rotenberg saiD、
The sites also did not perform well by other measures, the group saiD、It found that 35 of the sites featured profile based advertising, and 87 percent used cookies. The group concluded that the policies that were posted "are typically confusing, incomplete, and inconsistent". The report "SufferBeware III: Privacy Policies without Privacy Protection" is the third such survey by the group. It called for further development of technologies that help consumers protect their privacy and even anonymity when exploring the Internet.
Which of the following is out of the list of the basic criteria of privacy protection mentioned in paragraph 3A．Give notice of what information is collected and how it is collecteD、

B、Allow access to data that give consumers a chance to check information.
C．Make consumers believe that the information provided by the sites is surely correct.
D．Institute security measures to ensure the information collected is not used improperly.

网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
细节题。本题可采用排除法。文章第三段提到，保护个人隐私的基本标准包括：通告用户有哪些信息被收集以及将如何运用被收集的信息，向用户提供一个关于被收集的信息将以某种方式被使用的选项，允许用户获取数据资料以便他们有机会浏览并更正被收集的信息，制定安全措施以确保信息不会落人坏人之手，由此可排除A、B、D三项，只有C(让用户相信 网站提供的信息绝对正确)在文中没有被提及，故选c。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>