[单选题]Watchdogs are growling at the web giants, and sometimes biting them.In April ten privacy and data-protection commissioners from countries including Canada, Germany and Britain wrote a public letter to Eric Schmidt, Google’s boss, demanding 1______in Google Buzz, the firm’s social-networking service, which had been criticized for dipping 2______users’ Gmail accounts to find "followers" for them without clearly explaining what it was doing.Google 3______complied. Such run-ins with regulators are likely to multiply—and 4______the freedom of global Internet firms.It is not just that online privacy has become a/an 5______issue.More importantly,privacy rules are national, 6______data flows lightly and instantly 7______borders, often thanks to companies like Google and Facebook, which 8______vast databases. A recent scandal known as "Wi-Figate" 9______the problem.Google (accidentally, it insists) gathered data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks in people’s homes as part of a 10______to capture images of streets around the world.A number of regulators 11______investigations.Yet their reaction 12______widely, even within the European Union.Some European watchdogs ordered Google to 13______the data it had collected in their areas; others 14______that information related to their countries be destroyed. Despite such differences within Europe,the 15______is much greater between Europe and America.European regulations are inspired by the 16______that data privacy is a 17______human right and that individuals should be in control of how their data are used.America, 18______, takes a more relaxed view, allowing people to use consumer-protection laws to seek compensation if they feel their privacy has been 19______.It is this difference that explains why Silicon Valley firms that 20______abroad have sometimes been the targets of European Union data watchdogs. 第1题答案是______。