Cohere prohibits using its AI to build tools that track or surveil individuals without their knowledge or consent, including unauthorized location tracking or behavioral profiling.
Individuals are protected from having Cohere-powered tools used to surveil them without consent, but the lack of a clear definition of 'surveillance' means enforcement may be inconsistent across different commercial use cases.
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Compare across platforms →This provision creates compliance ambiguity for enterprise customers deploying legitimate employee monitoring, fraud detection, or security tools, as the boundary between lawful monitoring and prohibited surveillance is not precisely defined in the document.
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This prohibition engages ECPA (18 U.S.C. §2510) on electronic surveillance; GDPR Art. 22 on automated individual decision-making; CCPA §1798.100 on data collection without notice; Illinois BIPA (740 ILCS 14) on biometric data collection; and FTC Act Section 5 on unfair data collection practices, enforced by the FTC and state AGs. (2)
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