74It follows that the controller, including where it acts in connection with a task which it has been charged with carrying out in the public interest, may not proceed, in a general and undifferentiated manner, with the collection of personal data and it must refrain from collecting data which are not strictly necessary in relation to the purposes of the processing.
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