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'An individual's right to privacy' is more concise and clear compared to 'the rights of an individual to privacy'

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'An individual's right to privacy' is more concise and clear compared to 'the rights of an individual to privacy'

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In the question ...we have many rights of individual...to privacy...how can we change many rights to singular right...i think A is the best ..

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In the question ...we have many rights of individual...to privacy...how can we change many rights to singular right...i think A is the best ..

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An Individual can have many rights but when we mention about one single right such as
The right to erasure
The right to restrict processing
The right to data portability
The right to object

The right idiom/wording would be 'Right to Privacy' and not 'rights of an individual to privacy'
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It has become apparent in recent Supreme Court rulings that the rights of an individual to privacy are considerable but not absolute, and that such rights are particularly weakened when exigent circumstances are present.


(A) the rights of an individual to privacy are considerable but not absolute, and that such rights are particularly weakened when exigent circumstances are present

(B) an individual's right to privacy is considerable but not absolute, and that such a right is particularly weakened when exigent circumstances are present

(C) individuals' rights to privacy are considerable but not absolute, and that, when exigent circumstances are present, they make such rights particularly weaken

(D) considerable but not absolute rights to privacy are given to an individual, and that exigent circumstances particularly weaken such rights

(E) the Court considers individual rights as considerable if not absolute, and that such rights are particularly weakened when exigent circumstances are present

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The original sentence is certainly wordy but it's not grammatically incorrect. Therefore, scan the other choices for grammatical errors: they make such rights particularly weaken is not idiomatically correct word order or correct use of the verb to weaken, so eliminate (С). (E) changes the meaning of the original sentence; if not absolute suggests that the rights are possibly absolute. The remaining choices lack grammatical errors, but (A) and (D) are stylistically flawed. The rights of an individual to privacy in (A) and rights to privacy are given in (D) are wordier and less direct than an individual's right to privacy in (B). While (B) still contains the passive is weakened construction, it presents the most direct option, and is therefore our winner.

An 800 test taker understands that the passive voice does not itself constitute a grammatical error and only eliminates such a choice when there is a grammatically correct alternative in the active voice
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I suppose option A is grammatically correct, but the key differentiator is the fact that rights to individual privacy doesn't make any sense because legitly there can't be multiple rights to privacy..there. can be only one right for individual person

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I suppose option A is grammatically correct, but the key differentiator is the fact that rights to individual privacy doesn't make any sense because legitly there can't be multiple rights to privacy..there. can be only one right for individual person

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Hello Bp36mafia,

We hope this finds you well.

To provide a bit of clarity here, we would like to point out that, technically, there can exist multiple legal rights related to privacy that apply to all individuals. For example, a right to privacy from the government can exist separately from a right to privacy from commercial organizations.

We hope this helps.
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