双语新闻：硅谷高管承认低估公众对网络隐私担忧

2014-09-15 15:45:45来源：可可英语

　　The US tech industry has failed to appreciate themounting global concern over its record on onlineprivacy and security and must act fast to preventdeeper damage to its image, Silicon Valley’s topexecutives and investors have conceded.

　　美国硅谷的高管和投资者们承认，美国高科技行业没有意识到其网络隐私及安全记录正不断引起全球担忧，必须迅速采取行动，以防行业形象受到更大损害。

　　The self-criticism, much of it aimed at consumerinternet groups Google and Facebook, comes assome of the sector’s best-known names have beenbattered by a backlash over revelations of widespread US internet surveillance and concernsabout their cultural dominance.

　　这些检讨大部分针对消费者互联网巨头谷歌(Google)和Facebook。美国大规模互联网监视行为的揭露，以及对其文化优势的担忧引起了人们的强烈反对，令该行业部分知名人士饱受抨击。

　　Peter Thiel, a start-up investor and Facebook director, said: “Silicon Valley is quite obliviousto the degree to which this crescendo of concern is building up in Europe. It’s an extremelyimportant thing and Silicon Valley is underestimating it badly.”

　　Facebook董事、风险资本家皮特•泰尔(Peter Thiel)说：“硅谷没有察觉到欧洲不断加剧的担忧情绪。它非常重要，而硅谷却严重低估了它。”

　　Google has been most in the line of fire, with the European Commission turning up the heat in acompetition case last week and a recent “right to be forgotten” legal ruling forcing it toremove some links from its European search services.

　　谷歌一直处于风口浪尖，欧盟委员会(European Commission)上周在一起反垄断案中加大了对谷歌的压力，以及近期在一项“被遗忘权”裁决中迫使谷歌删除欧洲搜索服务的部分链接。

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