TermCraft conventionFoundational

Data Minimisation

Only collect the data you actually need.

Definition

The principle that personal data collected should be adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary.

Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.

In plain language

Only collect the data you actually need.

Removing a date of birth field from a form that never uses it, which also shortens the form.

Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.

The full entry behind this definition.

Connected closely enough to change how you apply this.

Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.