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The issue of online privacy in the Internet age found new urgency following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, sparking debate over striking the correct balance between protecting civil liberties and attempting to prevent another tragic terrorist act. While preventing terrorism certainly is of paramount importance, privacy rights should not be deemed irrelevant.
In response to the attacks, Congress quickly passed legislation that included provisions expanding rights of investi- gators to intercept wire, oral and electronic communications of alleged hackers and terrorists. Civil liberties groups ex- pressed concerns over the provisions and urged caution in ensuring that efforts to pro'tect our nation do not result in broad government authority to erode privacy rights of U. S. citizens. Nevertheless, causing further concern to civil liberties groups, the Department of Justice proposed exceptions to the attorney-client privilege. On Oct. 30, Attorney General John Ashcroft approved an interim agency rule that would permit federal prison authorities to monitor wire and electronic communications between lawyers and their clients in federal custody, including those who have been de- tained but not charged with any crime, whenever surveillance is deemed necessary to prevent violence or terrorism.
In light of this broadening effort to reach into communications that were previously believed to be "off-limits", the issue of online privacy is now.an even.more pressing concern. Congress has taken some legislative steps toward en- suring online privacy, including the Children' s Online Privacy Protection Act, and provided privacy protections for certain sectors through legislation such as the Financial Services Modernization Act. The legislation passed to date does not, however, provide a statutory scheme for protecting general online consumer privacy. Lacking definitive federal law, some stales.passed their own measures. But much of this legislation is incomplete or not enforced. Moreover, it becomes unworkable when states create different privacy standards; the Internet does not know geographic boundaries, and companies and individuals cannot be expected to comply with differing, and at times conflicting, privacy rules.
An analysis earlier this year of 751 U. S. and international Web sites conducted by Consumers International found that most sites collect personal information but fail to tell consumers how that data will be, used, how security is maintained and what rights consumers have over their own information.
At a minimum, Congress should pass legislation requiring Web sites to display privacy policies prominently, in- form consumers of the methods employed to collect client data, allow customers to opt. out of such data collection, and provide customer access to their own data that has already been collected. Although various Internet privacy bills were introduced in the 107th Congress, the. focus shifted to expanding government surveillance in the wake of the ter- rorist attacks. Plainly, government efforts to prevent terrorism are appropriate. Exactly how these exigent circum- stances change the nature of the online privacy debate is still to be seen.
Concerning the protection of privacy and increased ased surveillance of communieation, the author seems to insist on____________.
A．the priority of the former action
B．the execution of the latter at the expense of the fomer
C．tightening both policies at the same time
D．a balance between the two actions
9．11事件后，网络隐私问题成为了一个急需解决的问题。人们为找到保护公民自由和防止类似的恐怖事件之间的平衡而争论不休。为了应对恐怖袭击，国会通过一系列的法律对各种形式的交流进行监控，但这引来了公民隐私权的侵犯问题。在不断的反对声中，尽管各州政府设立法律保护公民的网络隐私，但是联邦却没有出台明确的法律，所以并不能对无界限的网络隐私起到实质性的保护作用。作者认为政府也应该采取法律措施对网站采集顾客个人信息的做法进行一定的管理。
答案及解析
D 【解析】文章开始就指出“．．．sparking debate over striking the cor—rect balance between protecting civil liberties and attempting to pre—vent another tragic terrorist act．”这说明作者认为一方面要防止类似的恐怖袭击活动，但另一方面也要注意保护公民的隐私权利，而且这双方面应该取得平衡。故应选D。
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