MBA联考阅读理解应试教程ACourseofMBAReading.ppt

[例27] 2002年全国MBA入学联考英语试题阅读部分第一篇文章 Shoppers who have flocked to online stores for their holiday shopping are losing privacy with every mouse click, according to a new report. The study by the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center scrutinized（仔细审查）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.” The 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 information collected, and instituting the kind of security measures that ensure that information won’t fall into the wrong hands. “This study shows that somebody else, other than Santa, is reading your Christmas list,” said Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Media Education, which also worked on the survey. The online privacy of children is protected by Federal Trade Commission 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 Rosenberg, 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 incorporate “cookies” technology, which gives Web sites basic information on visitors. Profiling is the practice of gathering information about consumers’ inte