Read the following passages and answer the items that follow the passages. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only. Now-a-days there is a growing trend to use interconnected home devices. As consumers increasingly network their homes, the connected home device manufacturers and service providers will seek to overcome "thin profit margins by gathering more of our personal data-with or without our agreementturning the home into a corporate storefront". Corporate marketers will have powerful incentives to observe consumer behaviour to understand the buying needs and preferences of the device owners. Which one of the following statements best reflects the most logical, rational and practical message implied by the passage?
Interconnected devices can be at security risk and home users may have privacy risk.
Option (1) is incorrect: This statement does not directly address the main concerns of the passage, which are about data collection and privacy, rather than capital expenditure in manufacturing.
Option (2) is incorrect: While it is true that knowledge of consumer behaviour stimulates the growth of commerce, the passage does not connect this to economic development or make any mention of it. Therefore, it is beyond the scope of the passage.
Option (3) is incorrect: Although interconnected devices might provide comfort, this statement overlooks the passage's emphasis on privacy risks and data misuse.
Option (4) is correct: Amongst the given options, this statement best addresses the most logical, rational and practical message implied by the passage, i.e. the privacy and security risks associated with interconnected home devices
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The compound interest on Rs. 75,000 for three years, at successive interest rates of 4%, 6% and 9% for each year respectively is:
The value of x in the following figures is :
When a child reaches adolescence, there is apt to be a conflict between the parents and the child, since
the latter considers himself to be by now quite capable of managing his own affairs, while the former
are filled with parental solicitude, which is often a disguise for love of power. Parents consider, usually,
that the various moral problems which arise in adolescence are peculiarly their province. The options
they express, however, are so dogmatic that the young seldom confide in them, and usually go their
own way in secret.
