Question

" Smartphones Put Your Privacy at Risk"

Consider everything your smartphone has done for you today. Counted your steps? Transcribed notes? Navigated you somewhere new?

Smartphones make for versatile pocket assistants. That’s because they’re equipped with a suite of sensors. And some of those sensors you may never think — or even know — about. They sense light, humidity, pressure, temperature and other factors.

Smartphones have become essential companions. So those sensors probably stayed close by throughout your day. They sat in your backpack or on the dinner table or nightstand. If you’re like most smartphone users, the device was probably on the whole time, even when its screen was blank.

“Sensors are finding their ways into every corner of our lives,” says Maryam Mehrnezhad. She’s a computer scientist at Newcastle University in England. That’s a good thing when phones are using their powers to do our bidding. But the many types of personal information that phones have access to also makes them potentially powerful spies.

How does the discussion of people's reliance on smartphones in paragraphs 1-4 contribute to the text?

A. It suggests that smartphones only collect information that will improve its reliability as a tool for users.

B. It shows how people willingly give information so that their smartphone will act as a reliable tool.

C. It shows how people's reliance on smartphones allows for data to be collected about them.

D. It suggests that invasive apps will not affect people's reliance on their smartphones.

choose the correct answer

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

C. It shows how people's reliance on smartphones allows for data to be collected about them.