C. They are becoming more advanced in how they collect and use data. (Smartphones Put Your Privacy at Risk)
By Maria Temming 2018
Explanation:
You could see in paragraph 45 how Al-Haiqi discusses that current sensor protections that are used in your phone can negatively affect your experience and people/companies are becoming advanced in their phone scams to release private information about you. Al-Haiqi clearly means that more clever attacks on your phone will emerge and that means security teams with engineers just to need to solve that with creative and more clever solutions. C makes the most logical sense here.
I would say that the intended meaning of that hyperbole is that <span>the speaker thinks that the colonists are being unfairly treated by the British government</span>
The answer would be rebuttal, because that is after one accuses the other, the "prey" (one being accused) has time for a rebuttal, to prove them wrong.