单选题 Someday a stranger will read your e-mail without your permission or scan the websites you"ve visited. Or perhaps someone will casually 1 through your credit card purchases or cell phone bills to find out your shopping 2 or calling habits.
Who would 3 you without your permission? It might be a spouse, a girlfriend, a marketing company, a boss, a cop or a criminal. Whoever it is, they will see you in a way you never 4 to be seen—the 21st century equivalent of being caught 5 .
Psychologists tell us 6 are healthy, that it"s important to reveal yourself to friends, family and lovers 7 stages, at appropriate times. But few of them remain today. The 8 bread crumbs (面包屑) you leave everywhere make it easy for 9 to reconstruct who you are, where you are and what you like. In some cases, a simple Google 10 can reveal what you think. 11 , increasingly we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret.
The key question is: Does that 12 ?
For many Americans, the 13 apparently is "no".
When asked about privacy, most Americans say they are concerned about 14 it. A survey found an overwhelming 15 about privacy, with 60 percent of respondents saying they feel their privacy is " 16 away, and that bothers me."
But people say one thing and do 17 . Only a tiny fraction of Americans change any 18 in an effort to preserve their privacy. Few people turn 19 a discount at tollbooths (收费站) to avoid using the EZ-Pass system that can 20 automobile movements. And few refuse supermarket loyalty cards.