【单选题】{{B}}Text 4{{/B}}
After two recent, big privacy disasters, people and politicians are calling for action. In February,ChoicePoint, a large data-collection agency, began sending out letters warning 145,000Americans that it had wrongly provided fraudsters with their personal details, including Social Security numbers.Around 750 people have already spotted fraudulent activity.And on February 25th,Bank ofAmerica revealed that it lost data tapes that contain personal information on over 1m government employees, including some Senators.Although accident and not illegality is suspected, all must take precautions against identity theft.
Faced with such incidents, state and national lawmakers are calling for new regulations, including over companies that collect and sell personal information.As an industry, the firms—such asChoicePoint,Acxiom, LexisNexis and Westlaw—are largely unregulateD、They have also grown enormous. For example,ChoicePoint was founded in 1997 and has acquired nearly 60 firms to amass databases with 19 billion records on people. It is used by insurance firms, landlords and even police agencies.
California is the only state with a law requiring companies to notify individuals when their personal information has been compromised—which madeChoicePoint reveal the fraud (albeit five months after it was noticed, and after its top two bosses exercised stock options). Legislation to make the requirement a federal law is under consideration. Moreover, lawmakers say they will propose that rules governing credit bureaus and medical companies are extended to data-collection firms.And alongside legislation, there is always litigation.Already,ChoicePoint has been sued for failing to safeguard individuals’ datA、
Yet the legal remedies would still be far looser than inEurope, where identity theft is also a menace, though less frequent and costly. TheEuropeanData ProtectionDirective, implemented in 1998, gives people the right to access theft information, change inaccuracies, and deny permission for it to be shareD、Moreover, it places the cost of mistakes on the companies that collect the data, not on individuals. When the law was put in force,American policymakers groaned that it was bad for business.But now they seem to be reconsidering it.
B．it was required by local legislation.
C．it was sued for failing to safeguard individual’s datA、
D．medical companies are also allowed to collect datA、
网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
[解题思路] 原因细节题。文章第四段第一句说“只有加州有法律要求公司在个人信息受到侵害时通知个人——这使得ChoicePoint揭露了该欺诈行为”，由此可见原因在于当地立法。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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