Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception
Unauthorized access and bypassing app controls are prohibited
Users may not engage in or facilitate unauthorized access to or use of the app, and may not disable, bypass, circumvent or interfere with any security mechanism or access control measure. Together these bar both getting in without authorization and defeating the technical controls that protect the app.
Details
- What it does
- engage in or facilitate unauthorized access
- What it covers
- security mechanism or access control measures
Supporting quotations
engage in or facilitate any unauthorized access to or use of the app;
disable, bypass, circumvent, or interfere with any security mechanism or access control measures.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Facilitating another party's unauthorized access is covered as well as doing it directly.
- The prohibition covers interference with security mechanisms and access control measures generally, not a named technology.
Cross-references
- contrast (model-proposed): Copying content is barred and DRM may enforce it — Both prohibit circumvention but protect different things: this card covers content-protection technology applied to content, while the other covers security mechanisms and access controls protecting the app itself.