Omitting data from Tealium Collect

[greg_hollingswo]

Is it possible to exclude certain data variables from what is collected in the Tealium collect tag? Would like to prevent certain pieces of data that could be considered PII/SPI from being swept up in the json object if possible.

[mark_reddin]

Hi @greg_hollingswo.

The Tealium Collect tag is like any other tag in that its data can be manipulated indepently of other tags.

The way I have done what you are asking for is to have a JavaScript extension scoped to the collect tag, and do this

delete b['PII_data_1'];

delete b['PII_data_2'];

...

Since the extension is scoped to the Collect tag, b is a reference to the copy of the data layer that's just for that tag.

Mark