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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · S. 2187 (Introduced in Senate) — To establish a regulatory framework for the comprehensive protection of personal data for individuals under the aegis... · Sec. 131

Sec. 131. Data minimization

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Each covered entity shall— collect only as much covered information relating to an individual as is reasonably necessary— to process or enforce a transaction or deliver a service requested by such individual; for the covered entity to provide a transaction or delivering a service requested by such individual, such as inventory management, financial reporting and accounting, planning, product or service improvement or forecasting, and customer support and service; to prevent or detect fraud or to provide for a secure environment; to investigate a possible crime; to comply with a provision of law; for the covered entity to market or advertise to such individual if the covered information used for such marketing or advertising was collected directly by the covered entity; or for internal operations, including— collecting customer satisfaction surveys and conducting customer research to improve customer service; and collection from an Internet website of information about visits and click-through rates relating to such website to improve— website navigation and performance; and the customer’s experience; retain covered information for only such duration as— with respect to the provision of a transaction or delivery of a service to an individual— is necessary to provide such transaction or deliver such service to such individual; or if such service is ongoing, is reasonable for the ongoing nature of the service; or is required by a provision of law; retain covered information only for the purpose it was collected, or reasonably related purposes; and exercise reasonable data retention procedures with respect to both the initial collection and subsequent retention.
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