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Purpose limitation: Under data-protection law, which principle most directly challenges this secondary use?

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Purpose limitation restricts reusing data collected for one purpose for an incompatible new purpose such as model training.

The question

A company collected customer-service transcripts to resolve support tickets, then later wants to reuse them to train a new AI product model. It obtained no consent or notice for training use. Under data-protection law, which principle most directly challenges this secondary use?

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  1. Data portability, since customers may demand their transcripts be exported to a competitor in a machine-readable format.
    Plausible but wrong: portability is a data-subject right about moving data, not a bar on secondary use.
  2. Storage limitation, since the transcripts must be deleted the very moment each support ticket is marked fully resolved.
    Plausible but wrong: storage limitation concerns retention duration, not compatibility of a new purpose.
  3. Accuracy, since the company must correct any factual mistakes the transcripts contain before it can train a model on them.
    Plausible but wrong: accuracy addresses data correctness, not whether reuse is a compatible purpose.
  4. Purpose limitation, since data gathered for support cannot be freely reused for an incompatible new training purpose. ✓
    Correct: purpose limitation bars reusing data for purposes incompatible with those it was collected for.
The trap
Assuming holding data lawfully for one purpose permits reusing it for any later AI-training purpose.

How to remember it

Purpose limitation restricts reusing data collected for one purpose for an incompatible new purpose such as model training.

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