Data Access & Collection · Restriction or exception
Users may not violate privacy laws or collect private, biometric or neural data without permission
Users may not violate privacy rights as defined by applicable privacy laws, such as sharing personal information without consent or accessing private data unlawfully. The same section prohibits misuse, collection, solicitation, or access without permission to private information such as non-public contact details, health data, biometric or neural data (including facial recognition), or confidential or proprietary data. The first limb measures privacy by applicable privacy laws; the second turns on the absence of permission and names biometric and neural data among its examples.
Supporting quotations
Do Not Compromise Privacy or Identity Rights
This includes using our products or services to:
Violate privacy rights as defined by applicable privacy laws, such as sharing personal information without consent or accessing private data unlawfully
Misuse, collect, solicit, or gain access without permission to private information such as non-public contact details, health data, biometric or neural data (including facial recognition), or confidential or proprietary data
Qualifications & exceptions
- Privacy rights are defined by reference to applicable privacy laws, and the examples of violation follow “such as”.
- The misuse, collection, solicitation and access limb is qualified by “without permission”.
- Biometric and neural data, expressly including facial recognition, count as private information.
Not stated here
- The policy does not name the applicable privacy laws or say which law governs a user who is not in the United States.