时间:2019-02-23 作者:英语课 分类:英语语言学习


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This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.
 
And I'm Audie Cornish.
 
To some Americans, revelations about the National Security Agency and how it monitors phone calls, emails and the Internet might not seem relevant to their lives. The idea being if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide. But agents of the NSA aren't the only ones who could potentially get hold of personal information.
 
BLOCK: This week, we're going to examine the digital footprints most of us leave from the time we wake up to the time we go to sleep. Those footprints reveal what we do, what we think, who we know and where we go.
 
And as NPR's Daniel Zwerdling reports, lots of different people could get their hands on that information, from local police to divorce attorneys.
 
(SOUNDBITE OF SNORING)
 
DANIEL ZWERDLING, BYLINE 1: It's 7 A.M. You start revealing your intimate habits to the outside world the moment you wake up.
 
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
 
ZWERDLING: At least, if you do what a lot of people do, you set an alarm on an app on your smartphone so you wake up to Internet radio.
 
(SOUNDBITE OF TALK SHOW)
 
BILL PRESS: It is a major crusade of mine, a major cause of mine. And that is to get rid of the "Star-Spangled Banner." Now, I know you're going to say I'm not a true American, I'm not...
 
ZWERDLING: Maybe you like to wake up to provocative 2 talk shows. This one is Bill Press, maybe you prefer Bill Bennett. You can listened to hundreds of talk and music shows from Internet companies like Tune-up or Pandora.
 
KEVIN BANKSTON: They know which songs you're listening to, which radio programs you're listening to.
 
ZWERDLING: Kevin Bankston is a lawyer with the Center for Democracy and Technology. It's a nonpartisan research and advocacy group here in Washington, D.C. Bankston says whatever you're listening to...
 
BANKSTON: Someone is logging that. Whether you like the right-wing commentator 3 or the left-wing commentator, whether it's Internet radio or just reading a news story after you've logged into The New York Times. There's a record that you consume that content. And that's not anything we've ever had before in human history, is anything close to a comprehensive look at the media you're consuming.
 
(SOUNDBITE OF SHOWER CURTAIN, WATER RUNNING)
 
ZWERDLING: And now it's 7:05 A.M. You drag yourself out of bed, you turn on the shower. And while the water is getting hot, you check your emails. Aha, there's one from a friend of yours. She writes, thought you might want to check this out since we argued about religion the other day. And she sent you a link to a book at BarnesAndNoble.com. You click...
 
(SOUNDBITE OF A KEYBOARD)
 
ZWERDLING: ...and instantly, the digital world out there has more information about you. The screen shows the cover of a book called "Jihad in the West." The title is in big yellow letters against a photo of a mosque 4. The book is a scholarly history. But if someone didn't know better, it might raise eyebrows 5. I asked a software specialist to analyze 6.
 
(SOUNDBITE OF A KEYBOARD)
 
ASKHAN SOLTANI: As the result of clicking on this link, "Jihad in the West," who all receives information about me, about me looking at this book?
 
ZWERDLING: Ashkan Soltani used to investigate software companies for the Federal Trade Commission. Now he's a consultant 7 on online privacy and he's using special software that reveals something that you normally never see. Companies on the Internet commonly allow other companies to, in effect, spy on what you're doing on their websites.
 
The companies tracking you are usually hidden on the webpage. But Soltani's software shows the companies as white circles on a black background.
 
SOLTANI: ...7, 8, 9, 10, 11 - something like 15 different companies.
 
ZWERDLING: Fifteen?
 
SOLTANI: That's right. By looking up this book, "Jihad in the West" on Barnes & Noble, 15 other companies know that you've looked this up.
 
ZWERDLING: Many companies that track you want to know what interests you, so they can target ads specifically to you. Others gather personal information and then sell it to industry research outfits 8. The software that Soltani's using names the companies that are tracking our computer right now.
 
SOLTANI: We have Google.com, we have Coremetrics, Cridio, Scorecard Research, CMCore.com, and we'd have to look up kind of who these companies are.
 
ZWERDLING: So even you haven't heard of some of them.
 
SOLTANI: Yeah. You know, when I first started doing this research I was aware of, say, two to three hundred. And now they're in the thousands.
 
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ZWERDLING: It's now 8:15 A.M. and let's say you're going to work, and you're creating more digital footprints.
 
(SOUNDBITE OF SUBWAY TRAIN ANNOUNCEMENT)
 
COMPUTERIZED VOICE #1: Step back to allow the doors to close.
 
ZWERDLING: If you take the subway or bus, do you use a registered smartcard to pay the fare? The Transportation Department or its contractors 9 keep computer logs that show when and where you travel.
 
(SOUNDBITE OF CAR DOOR AND IGNITION)
 
ZWERDLING: And if you drive, your local police might be taking photos of you in your car and storing it in their computers. Police across the country are using automatic license 10 plate scanners now to help solve crimes.
 
MOHAMMED TABIBI: It simplifies the job a lot more.
 
ZWERDLING: That's Detective Mohammed Tabibi in Arlington, Virginia. His car has two cameras that sit on the hood 11 like searchlights. As we cruise down the street, they automatically snap pictures of just about every license plate we pass, whether moving or parked. They can take up to 7,200 per hour. Every time they get a picture, it beeps.
 
(SOUNDBITE OF BEEPS)
 
ZWERDLING: The system stores a picture that shows the license plate, the car, the GPS coordinates 12, the time, and the person getting in or out, if he or she happens to be there. The computer automatically sounds the alarm if the license is in the crime database.
 
(SOUNDBITE OF AN ALARM)
 
COMPUTERIZED VOICE #2: Stolen vehicle.
 
TABIBI: I've located numerous stolen vehicles, at least 10 with the system.
 
ZWERDLING: Police aren't just using license plate scanners to catch criminals. They're accumulating millions of records that show where cars and their owners were spotted 13 across America.
 
Until recently, Mary Ellen Callahan was a top adviser 14 to the secretary of Homeland Security. She says as cities share this information...
 
MARY ELLEN CALLAHAN: You would have a very detailed 15 snapshot of what my husband and I do in our car, where we travel, what our day is like.
 
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Good morning. How are you?
 
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Fine.
 
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Good.
 
ZWERDLING: Its 9 A.M., you arrive at work. The rest of the morning, you surf the Internet for your job. Court cases have established that your employer has the right to see everything you do on your work computer, including your personal emails.
 
(SOUNDBITE OF A KEYBOARD)
 
ZWERDLING: Finally it's 1 P.M. You tell your colleagues you're going to lunch. But you're not really going to lunch. You're going to a medical appointment and you don't want people to know it. But your cellphone leaves a digital trail.
 
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
 
ZWERDLING: The hit TV show "Scandal" had an episode about it.
 
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW "SCANDAL")
 
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: Cellphones - cellphones off - everybody turn off your cellphones. They can track the signals.
 
ZWERDLING: And a German politician named Malte Spitz knows what people can learn from your cellphone.
 
MALTE SPITZ: If someone has this information about you, this person has a map of your life.
 
ZWERDLING: A couple of years ago, Spitz sued his phone company in Germany so they'd give him the computer logs they keep on his cellphone. A computer specialist turned them into an animated 16 map. And now, Spitz and I watch his life together. We are following roughly where he went 24 hours a day over six months.
 
And suddenly, I see your circle, you, zipping along at a pretty fast pace along what looks like a valley, past woods. Are you driving?
 
SPITZ: No. On August 31st, I go by high-speed train to Bavaria. Next day, I went to Munich.
 
ZWERDLING: Spitz and phone engineers will tell you that, in general, your phone company cannot track exactly where you are the way they show in the movies. Instead, your company logs which cellphone tower handles each of your calls and texts. So if you're in a rural area, where there aren't many towers, the logs might show where you were only within a few miles. If you're in a city with lots of towers, the log might be able to show which block you were on, even which building. And, of course, if you use smartphone apps that know your location...
 
(SOUNDBITE OF A SMARTPHONE APP)
 
COMPUTERIZED VOICE #3: Head west on K Street Northwest towards 1st Street Northwest.
 
ZWERDLING: They keep track of exactly where you've gone by connecting with GPS satellites.
 
(SOUNDBITE OF A SMARTPHONE APP)
 
COMPUTERIZED VOICE #3: Turn left onto 1st Street Northwest.
 
ZWERDLING: It's 2 P.M., back to the office. You work till five. But before you go home, you pop into the pharmacy 17.
 
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: I'm here to pick up that prescription 18.
 
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: OK.
 
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: Thank you.
 
ZWERDLING: This is Brookville Pharmacy in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The owner, Hossein Ejtemai, says his computer stores seven years worth of details about your life. But he says they're private.
 
HOSSEIN EJTEMAI: What you're taking, what condition you are in, what kind of disease you have.
 
ZWERDLING: HIV, sexually transmitted diseases.
 
EJTEMAI: Anything - the list of your medications.
 
ZWERDLING: If my wife came to you and said, what medications is he taking?
 
EJTEMAI: I cannot give no information, doesn't matter who comes in.
 
ZWERDLING: Except police and even private lawyers can get your medical records with just a subpoena 19. We'll talk more about that later this week.
 
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: All right great, thank you so much. Have a good day
 
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: You, too.
 
ZWERDLING: Now it's just after 6 P.M. You're home. You're ready for dinner. So you go, where else, to the refrigerator.
 
(SOUNDBITE OF ELECTRONIC SOUNDS)
 
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: I know what you're thinking, it's just a fridge. But this isn't any old fridge. This is the LG Smartfridge...
 
ZWERDLING: Or it could be the smart refrigerator by Whirlpool or Samsung; most of the big companies are starting to promote smart appliances this year.
 
(SOUNDBITE OF ELECTRONIC SOUNDS)
 
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: And thanks to its smart shopping feature you'll be able to actually buy your groceries online, directly from the fridge. Now, you'll all say...
 
ZWERDLING: Did you catch that? The refrigerator can scan the barcodes on the food you put into it and then it can order your groceries online when you need more. Now, maybe you're shaking your head and thinking, who needs a smart refrigerator? Or if you get one, do you care if some computer across the Internet keeps track of your food?
 
REBECCA HAROLD: Yeah, what's the big deal if somebody knows that I have a refrigerator and buy milk and eggs?
 
ZWERDLING: Rebecca Harold is a privacy specialist. She's part of an international committee set up by the U.S. Commerce Department to study smart energy systems. She says your milk and eggs might seem trivial but think about it. Every smart appliance, from the air conditioner to the thermostat 20, will reveal clues about your family. The smart fridge, too.
 
HAROLD: If you wanted to know before what type of food people were eating and how many people were in a particular location or apartment, you would've physically 21 had to put some sort of surveillance. And this type of information can give insights into people's lives that you just haven't been able to get before.
 
ZWERDLING: Now, it's 9 P.M. You've finished dinner and you've loaded your smart dishwasher. You plop in front of the TV to watch Netflix.
 
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW "HOUSE OF CARDS")
 
KATE MARA: (as Zoe Barnes) You can't hurt me.
 
KEVIN SPACEY: (as Frank Underwood) Take your heels off.
 
ZWERDLING: But, of course, companies like Netflix track what you watch and when.
 
(SOUNDBITE OF TRAFFIC NOISE)
 
ZWERDLING: Hi, excuse me, guys, could I ask you something? Here on the streets in Washington D.C., most people I talk to aren't concerned. When you think about all the information about you that's out there in the digital world...
 
BRENT THORPE: It doesn't bother me. My name is Brent Thorpe(ph), Washington, D.C. It just doesn't bother me. I have nothing to hide.
 
DAVID COLE: The question is not, you know, should you be concerned about the government getting access to where you're travelling on the metro 22 or who you're calling.
 
ZWERDLING: David Cole is a professor and a lawyer at Georgetown University.
 
COLE: Or what Internet sites you're browsing 23 or how you're using your credit card.
 
ZWERDLING: He teaches constitutional law and national security.
 
COLE: The question is, should we be concerned when the government has access to all of that information and can put it together to create a picture of your private activities, your thoughts and desires, your interests and disinterests that is more intimate than almost anybody other than maybe your spouse 24 is likely to be aware of?
 
ZWERDLING: And forget about government snooping for the moment; tomorrow, we'll learn more about companies that track the digital footprints of your life. Daniel Zwerdling, NPR News.
 
CORNISH: Our story was co-reported by G.W. Schulz of the Center for Investigative Reporting and researched by Emma Anderson. Now, you can learn more about the digital world and privacy at npr.org.

n.署名;v.署名
  • His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
  • We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
adj.挑衅的,煽动的,刺激的,挑逗的
  • She wore a very provocative dress.她穿了一件非常性感的裙子。
  • His provocative words only fueled the argument further.他的挑衅性讲话只能使争论进一步激化。
n.注释者,解说者;实况广播评论员
  • He is a good commentator because he can get across the game.他能简单地解说这场比赛,是个好的解说者。
  • The commentator made a big mistake during the live broadcast.在直播节目中评论员犯了个大错误。
n.清真寺
  • The mosque is a activity site and culture center of Muslim religion.清真寺为穆斯林宗教活动场所和文化中心。
  • Some years ago the clock in the tower of the mosque got out of order.几年前,清真寺钟楼里的大钟失灵了。
眉毛( eyebrow的名词复数 )
  • Eyebrows stop sweat from coming down into the eyes. 眉毛挡住汗水使其不能流进眼睛。
  • His eyebrows project noticeably. 他的眉毛特别突出。
vt.分析,解析 (=analyse)
  • We should analyze the cause and effect of this event.我们应该分析这场事变的因果。
  • The teacher tried to analyze the cause of our failure.老师设法分析我们失败的原因。
n.顾问;会诊医师,专科医生
  • He is a consultant on law affairs to the mayor.他是市长的一个法律顾问。
  • Originally,Gar had agreed to come up as a consultant.原来,加尔只答应来充当我们的顾问。
n.全套装备( outfit的名词复数 );一套服装;集体;组织v.装备,配置设备,供给服装( outfit的第三人称单数 )
  • He jobbed out the contract to a number of small outfits. 他把承包工程分包给许多小单位。 来自辞典例句
  • Some cyclists carry repair outfits because they may have a puncture. 有些骑自行车的人带修理工具,因为他们车胎可能小孔。 来自辞典例句
n.(建筑、监造中的)承包人( contractor的名词复数 )
  • We got estimates from three different contractors before accepting the lowest. 我们得到3个承包商的报价后,接受了最低的报价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia. 赢得建筑工作的承包商得抽出合同价格的百分之二的回扣给黑手党。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许
  • The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
  • The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。
n.头巾,兜帽,覆盖;v.罩上,以头巾覆盖
  • She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
  • The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。
n.相配之衣物;坐标( coordinate的名词复数 );(颜色协调的)配套服装;[复数]女套服;同等重要的人(或物)v.使协调,使调和( coordinate的第三人称单数 );协调;协同;成为同等
  • The town coordinates on this map are 695037. 该镇在这幅地图上的坐标是695037。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下,负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.有斑点的,斑纹的,弄污了的
  • The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
n.劝告者,顾问
  • They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
adj.详细的,详尽的,极注意细节的,完全的
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。
adj.生气勃勃的,活跃的,愉快的
  • His observations gave rise to an animated and lively discussion.他的言论引起了一场气氛热烈而活跃的讨论。
  • We had an animated discussion over current events last evening.昨天晚上我们热烈地讨论时事。
n.药房,药剂学,制药业,配药业,一批备用药品
  • She works at the pharmacy.她在药房工作。
  • Modern pharmacy has solved the problem of sleeplessness.现代制药学已经解决了失眠问题。
n.处方,开药;指示,规定
  • The physician made a prescription against sea- sickness for him.医生给他开了个治晕船的药方。
  • The drug is available on prescription only.这种药只能凭处方购买。
n.(法律)传票;v.传讯
  • He was brought up to court with a subpoena.他接到传讯,来到法庭上。
  • Select committees have the power to subpoena witnesses.特别委员会有权传唤证人。
n.恒温器
  • The thermostat is connected by a link to the carburetor.恒温控制器是由一根连杆与汽化器相连的。
  • The temperature is controlled by electronic thermostat with high accuracy.电子恒温器,准确性高。
adj.物质上,体格上,身体上,按自然规律
  • He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服,心绪也很乱。
  • Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。
n.地铁;adj.大都市的;(METRO)麦德隆(财富500强公司之一总部所在地德国,主要经营零售)
  • Can you reach the park by metro?你可以乘地铁到达那个公园吗?
  • The metro flood gate system is a disaster prevention equipment.地铁防淹门系统是一种防灾设备。
v.吃草( browse的现在分词 );随意翻阅;(在商店里)随便看看;(在计算机上)浏览信息
  • He sits browsing over[through] a book. 他坐着翻阅书籍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Cattle is browsing in the field. 牛正在田里吃草。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.配偶(指夫或妻)
  • Her spouse will come to see her on Sunday.她的丈夫星期天要来看她。
  • What is the best way to keep your spouse happy in the marriage?在婚姻中保持配偶幸福的最好方法是什么?
学英语单词
12117
Actual Fault in Collision
alternative route of same stage
amrita
as before
askriggs
Automated Transfer Vehicle
ax handles
belly tank
by way of prevention
Byelarus
callship
carcinoma of ureter
caryozoic
cell atmosphere
Channukah
compensating gage
contracting band clutch
coolant make up
corrading
cowardies
culpable negligence
database normalization
downshifter
drying-machine
essential number
estreated
femtomoles
ferrotychite
filled rectangle
filled spandrel arch bridge
first order condition
gamma compensated ionization chamber
genus xylomelums
go beyond the bounds of
gosa
ground clip
haliseria latiascula okam.
hinge offset
HIVIP
ilk
individual hygiene
inhumate
internal drill pipe cutter
karyomegalic
lebovic
lemniscate of Bernoulli
lifenet
liquefaction point
little spiderhunters
loan delinquency
logging thermometer
logic wiring
make my lucky
male pattern alopecia
massachusetts institute of technology opencourseware
medium thermal carbon black
metapenaeopsis liui
modal vector
negotiable credit instrument
newss
ohba
opr
oripavine
paragenesis diagram
periosteal lamella
play ball
prearranged barrage
preempt search
puy type volcano
quick response excitation
Riviersonderend Mountains
saw bucks
semioperatic
silver carbide
single pulse device
single row stage
Slavošovce
sophs
steak and kidney pudding
stereo-zone
sternebbra
StrataFlash
subgluteal
susceptibility model
thongs
through going-tie-rod
times without number
too close to call
top field
tophuss
traditore
train hospital
transgirl
unadjusted
uninfringeable
US Mint
virtuecrat
warden
water turbine pumping station
wide-band ratio
wifeliness