Usage Policy

Inference & Profiling · Restriction or exception

Users may not score people's trustworthiness or categorize them by sensitive attributes

Users may not utilize models to assign scores or ratings to individuals based on an assessment of their trustworthiness or social behavior without notification or their consent. The same section prohibits utilizing models as part of any biometric categorization system for categorizing people based on their biometric data to infer their race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation. The scoring limb is qualified by the absence of notification or consent, and the categorization limb names the sensitive attributes it may not be used to infer.

Supporting quotations

Utilize models to assign scores or ratings to individuals based on an assessment of their trustworthiness or social behavior without notification or their consent

Utilize models as part of any biometric categorization system for categorizing people based on their biometric data to infer their race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation

Qualifications & exceptions

• Scoring or rating trustworthiness or social behavior is prohibited without notification or consent.
• The biometric categorization limb covers inference of race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation.

Not stated here

• The policy does not say what notice satisfies the notification requirement.

Inference & Profiling · Restriction or exception

Users may not build emotion recognition systems except for medical or safety reasons

Users may not build or support emotional recognition systems or techniques that are used to infer emotions of a natural person, except for medical or safety reasons. The exception is stated by its purpose, so the prohibition applies to emotion-inference systems that are not built or supported for medical or safety reasons.

Supporting quotations

Build or support emotional recognition systems or techniques that are used to infer emotions of a natural person, except for medical or safety reasons

Qualifications & exceptions

• The exception is limited to medical or safety reasons.

Not stated here

• The policy does not say who determines whether a purpose is medical or safety-related.

Cross-references

• contrast (model-proposed): Users may not track location, emotion or communication without consent, or do facial recognition — One prohibition bars targeting or tracking a person’s emotional state without their consent; another bars building or supporting emotion recognition systems used to infer emotions, except for medical or safety reasons. Consent removes the first prohibition but is not a stated route around the second, so a consented emotion-inference system still needs a medical or safety purpose. The two provisions therefore condition emotion inference on different tests.