Answer:
Which type of evidence is used in the excerpt?
an example
a story
a quote
a statistic
This type of evidence used in this excerpt is an example a statistic.
The reason why a statistic is an answer is that statistics are based on facts. It is seen in the excerpt that “More than a hundred million e-mails are sent around the world each day” and this sentence can be true of false because it is evidence and can be confirmed. And also the line “Digital technology has aided communication, but it has also given rise to the possibility of those communications being monitored” is evidence and can also be confirmed whether it is true or not.