The policy prohibits using Cohere services for unlawful location tracking, social scoring, real-time biometric identification, emotion inference from biometric data, inference of protected characteristics such as race or political opinions from biometric data, or other unauthorized access to personal information.
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This provision specifically enumerates real-time biometric identification and emotion inference from biometric data as prohibited uses, both of which are classified as prohibited or high-risk practices under the EU AI Act. The reference to 'applicable privacy regulations' incorporates compliance obligations under GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable privacy frameworks by reference.
Interpretive note: The scope of prohibited activities under this provision depends on 'applicable privacy regulations,' which vary significantly by jurisdiction and require independent legal assessment for each deployment context.
The updated policy removes all substantive acceptable use requirements that were previously posted and enforceable. Users no longer have a referenced standard defining what conduct is prohibited on the platform. The removal of enforcement procedures means users cannot verify what conduct may trigger access restriction, suspension, or termination. The elimination of the child safety and sexually explicit content prohibitions from the posted policy creates uncertainty about whether these protections remain in effect through other terms or have been abandoned.
View change record →Under this clause, Cohere services may not be used to infer emotions, race, political opinions, or other protected characteristics from biometric data, or to conduct real-time identification of individuals. The prohibition on social scoring covers automated systems that assign scores to individuals based on their behavior or characteristics.
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Compare across platforms →"Compromising Privacy or Identity. Violation of a person's privacy rights or applicable privacy regulations, including unlawful access to or tracking of a person's physical location; unlawful social scoring; real-time identification of a person or inference of emotions or protected characteristics of a person such as race or political opinions based on biometric data (including facial recognition); or other unauthorized access to personal information.Excerpt from Cohere's Usage Policy
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The prohibition on real-time biometric identification and emotion inference from biometric data directly engages the EU AI Act's list of prohibited AI practices, which includes real-time remote biometric identification in public spaces …
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This provision specifically enumerates real-time biometric identification and emotion inference from biometric data as prohibited uses, both of which are classified as prohibited or high-risk practices under the EU AI Act. The reference to 'applicable privacy regulations' incorporates compliance obligations under GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable privacy frameworks by reference.
Under this clause, Cohere services may not be used to infer emotions, race, political opinions, or other protected characteristics from biometric data, or to conduct real-time identification of individuals. The prohibition on social scoring covers automated systems that assign scores to individuals based on their behavior or characteristics.
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