1. One important part of that debate concerns control over personal information, which technological and legal changes have made increasingly consequential.
2. This control can be understood as privacy over data: the ability to shape who accesses personal information and how it is used.
3. Requiring consent before data collection is one practical way of giving individuals this ability.
4. Commercial database systems are often redesigned to reduce storage costs and make search queries run faster.
5. Privacy is a complex and contested legal notion, and resolving every debate about it lies beyond the present discussion.
Q9. Four sentences form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and enter its number.
Answer and solution
Correct answer: 4
Solution
1. Sentence 5 introduces debates about privacy. Sentence 1’s “that debate” selects the issue of personal-information control.
2. Sentence 2’s “This control” defines data privacy; sentence 3’s “this ability” turns the definition into a consent requirement.
3. This fixes a coherent 5–1–2–3 chain about individual control of data.
4. Sentence 4 concerns storage and query performance, not privacy rights or consent. Answer 4.
Detailed reasoning and elimination check:
The repeated words form an argument about control: privacy debate → personal information → data privacy → consent. The database-performance sentence shares a technological setting but discusses speed and storage costs, not the individual’s control over information.
G Strategy shortcut
Spot: Resolve references and sentence roles.Apply: Lock 5→1→2→3 by references. Technical database efficiency in 4 is outside the privacy-rights chain.
Check: The repeated words form an argument about control: privacy debate → personal information → data privacy → consent. The database-performance sentence shares a technological setting but discusses speed and storage costs, not the individual’s control over information.
G Strategy: Spot: Resolve references and sentence roles. Apply: Lock 5→1→2→3 by references. Technical database efficiency in 4 is outside the privacy-rights chain. Check: The repeated words form an argument about control: privacy debate → personal information → data privacy → consent. The database-performance sentence shares a technological setting but discusses speed and storage costs, not the individual’s control over information.