The AUP prohibits users from transmitting viruses, trojans, worms, malware, ransomware, or other malicious or harmful programs through the Databricks Services.
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This provision establishes a contractual prohibition on malicious code transmission that reinforces applicable computer fraud and cybercrime statutes, and creates explicit grounds for service termination.
The agreement prohibits transmission of malicious code or harmful programs through Databricks Services, consistent with standard cloud platform acceptable use requirements.
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You may not automatedly crawl or query the Services for any purpose or by any means (including, without limitation, screen and database scraping, spiders, robots, crawlers and any other automated activity with the purpose of obtaining information from the Services) unless you have received prior exp...
relate to transactions involving (f) the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime... (i) involve offering or receiving payments for the purpose of bribery or corruption.
You must not, and must not allow others to: Facilitate illegal or harmful activity through the End User Services; Cause harm to us or others through the End User Services;
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"Transmit any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, malware, ransomware, or any other harmful or deleterious programs.— Excerpt from Databricks's Databricks AI Acceptable Use Policy
1. REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and analogous state cybercrime statutes. For customers in regulated industries, relevant sector-specific cybersecurity frameworks may also apply. 2. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Low for standard commercial users. This reflects standard industry practice in cloud platform AUPs. 3. JURISDICTION FLAGS: These prohibitions apply globally and are reinforced by equivalent cybercrime statutes in most jurisdictions. 4. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Customers operating cybersecurity research or threat intelligence platforms on Databricks should assess whether their use of malware samples or threat artifacts in data analysis workflows requires explicit authorization from Databricks. 5. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Security operations teams should confirm that data pipelines ingesting threat intelligence or malware samples into Databricks environments are structured to avoid inadvertent transmission of active malicious code.
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This provision establishes a contractual prohibition on malicious code transmission that reinforces applicable computer fraud and cybercrime statutes, and creates explicit grounds for service termination.
The agreement prohibits transmission of malicious code or harmful programs through Databricks Services, consistent with standard cloud platform acceptable use requirements.
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