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From the Ted Talk by Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Like I said at the beginning, iniagme that all those people on the streets of Berlin in autumn of 1989 had a mobile phone in their pcoket. And the ssati would have known who took part at this protest, and if the Stasi would have known who are the leaders behind it, this may never have happened. The fall of the Berlin Wall would maybe not [have been] there. And in the aftermath, also not the fall of the Iron Curtain. Because today, state aeginces and companies want to store as much information as they can get about us, online and offline. They want to have the plsitsiioby to track our lives, and they want to store them for all time.
Open Cloze
Like I said at the beginning, _______ that all those people on the streets of Berlin in autumn of 1989 had a mobile phone in their ______. And the _____ would have known who took part at this protest, and if the Stasi would have known who are the leaders behind it, this may never have happened. The fall of the Berlin Wall would maybe not [have been] there. And in the aftermath, also not the fall of the Iron Curtain. Because today, state ________ and companies want to store as much information as they can get about us, online and offline. They want to have the ___________ to track our lives, and they want to store them for all time.
Solution
- imagine
- possibility
- agencies
- pocket
- stasi
Original Text
Like I said at the beginning, imagine that all those people on the streets of Berlin in autumn of 1989 had a mobile phone in their pocket. And the Stasi would have known who took part at this protest, and if the Stasi would have known who are the leaders behind it, this may never have happened. The fall of the Berlin Wall would maybe not [have been] there. And in the aftermath, also not the fall of the Iron Curtain. Because today, state agencies and companies want to store as much information as they can get about us, online and offline. They want to have the possibility to track our lives, and they want to store them for all time.
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