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This requirement imposes a specific technical security obligation on advertisers whose linked sites collect sensitive data, making non-HTTPS collection a policy violation.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated after 'government-issued identification info', so the full list of sensitive information categories is not available. The canonical claim preserves the 'but is not limited to' qualifier to reflect that the listed categories are non-exhaustive.
Advertisers must implement HTTPS on any landing site linked from their ad if that site collects sensitive information such as financial or government-issued identification data.
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This requirement imposes a specific technical security obligation on advertisers whose linked sites collect sensitive data, making non-HTTPS collection a policy violation.
Advertisers must implement HTTPS on any landing site linked from their ad if that site collects sensitive information such as financial or government-issued identification data.
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