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Biometric data is a sensitive category of Personal Information; collection is conditioned on the user's consent given within the user experience for specific account authentication purposes.
PayPal will only collect the reader's biometric data when the reader consents within the user experience for authentication of specific account actions.
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Biometric data is a sensitive category of Personal Information; collection is conditioned on the user's consent given within the user experience for specific account authentication purposes.
PayPal will only collect the reader's biometric data when the reader consents within the user experience for authentication of specific account actions.
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