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"The legal framework should prohibit the collection, use or dissemination of personal data or information in any manner for any purpose other than the exercise of suffrage rights. In particular, care should be given to provisions that relate to fingerprints, photographs and personal identification numbers, as well as to ethnicity or other factors that could lead to discrimination or place the voter at risk of personal harm."
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OSCE (ODIHR): Guidelines for Reviewing a Legal Framework for Elections, Second Edition, p. 34Summaries
- Personal data should be used only for the purposes for which it was collected.
- States should adopt laws protecting privacy of personal information.
- Personal data should only be collected for specified and legitimate purposes.
- Collection of personal data should be minimized, relevant, and limited to purposes pursued.