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The night of December 16, 1773, dozens of Massachusetts colonists quietly boarded three ships and dumped what would now be close

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问题     The night of December 16, 1773, dozens of Massachusetts colonists quietly boarded three ships and dumped what would now be close to $1 million worth of British tea into Boston Harbor.
    The Sons of Liberty painted their faces and dressed like Native Americans. They barely spoke, to avoid revealing their identities. “There appeared to be an understanding that each individual should volunteer his services, keep his own secret, and risk the consequence for himself,” one of them wrote. It worked. Only a single person was caught.
    What if the British had access to modern surveillance technology? What if they’d had access to face recognition?
    From the Boston Tea Party to the printing of Common Sense, the ability to dissent—and to do it anonymously—was central to the founding of the United States. Anonymity was no luxury: It was a crime to advocate separation from the British Crown. It was a crime to dump British tea into Boston harbor. This trend persists. Our history is replete(充满) with moments when it was a “crime” to do the right thing, and legal to inflict injustice.
    The latest crime-fighting tools, however, may eliminate people’s ability to be anonymous. Historically, surveillance technology has tracked our technology: our cars, our computers, our phones. Face recognition technology tracks our bodies. And unlike fingerprinting or DNA analysis, face recognition is designed to identify us from far away and in secret.
    Face recognition is not just about finding terrorists. It’s about finding citizens. As a result of simply having a driver’s license, over half of all American adults are enrolled in a criminal face recognition network. While the details are murky, it appears that Baltimore County police used face recognition to identify people protesting the death of Freddie Gray.
    As law enforcement develops increasingly powerful surveillance tools, we need to ask ourselves: Are we building a world where no dissent is anonymous? A world where the Sons of Liberty are each arraigned(传讯) as British tea still floats in Boston harbor?
    The answer to these questions has to be “no.” In the midst of a heated debate about encryption and the need for privacy and security in our communications, it’s tempting to think that the solutions to these problems will originate in Silicon Valley. They won’t. You can encrypt your hard drive. You can encrypt your emails and texts. You cannot encrypt your face.
    There may be technical means to avoid face recognition. Coincidentally, one of them echoes the face paint worn by the Sons of Liberty. But face recognition’s threat to freedom will not be addressed through a simple change in default settings. It will be addressed only through hard conversations, and legislation, in Congress and state legislatures.
    “Writing and talk do not prove me,” wrote Walt Whitman in his Song of Myself. “I carry the plenum(充分) of proof and everything else in my face.” We have grown accustomed to the monitoring of our technology and communications. There is something different, something intractable and ominous, about the tracking of our bodies.
Which of the following tools is likely to deprive people of the ability to be anonymous?
选项 A、Traditional monitoring technology.
B、Fingerprint recognition technology.
C、Face recognition technology.
D、DNA analysis.
答案B
解析 由题干中的tools和ability to be anonymous定位到原文第五段。事实细节题。本题考查令人们无法匿名的工具。该段第一句提到，打击犯罪的最新工具可能会令人们无法匿名。第三、四句指出与指纹识别和DNA分析不同，人脸识别技术追踪我们的身体，能在远距离秘密的识别我们，由tracks our bodies和identify us from away and in secret 可知，使人们无法匿名的是人脸识别技术，故答案为B，同时排除C和D。A“传统的监视技术”，该段第二句提到历史上，监视技术已追踪了我们的科技产品：我们的汽车、电脑和电话，这种监视技术是传统技术，而不是最新工具，并且只能追踪我们身边的东西，不能让人们无法匿名，故排除。
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