Validating assumptions regarding market regulations
Question
Which one of the following statements best reflects the most logical, rational and practical message implied by the passage?
Options
Knowledge of consumer behaviour leads to more capital expenditure in manufacturing sector.
Knowledge of consumer behaviour stimulates the growth of commerce and trade and thus helps in the overall economic development of the country.
Interconnected devices give a lot of comfort to home users and improve the overall quality of life.
Interconnected devices can be at security risk and home users may have privacy risk.
Explanation
The passage warns that corporate entities exploit smart home networks to track users "with or without our agreement," effectively converting private living spaces into transactional data conduits[cite: 2134, 2135, 2136]. The immediate, practical inference of capturing intimate personal data without explicit consent is a severe invasion of confidentiality. Option (d) correctly identifies this systemic "privacy risk". Options (a) and (b) view this data harvesting through a positive macroeconomic lens that runs completely counter to the paragraph's critical tone.
Answer: (d).
Question details
Year
2024
Paper
CSAT
Question
Q62
Section
Reading Comprehension
Sub-topic
Economy / Corporate passage
Type
Statement-based
Difficulty
Medium
Source hint
Passage-based comprehension
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