The policy prohibits using Google's generative AI to build, generate, or distribute tools or content that enable tracking or monitoring individuals without their consent.
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This provision engages privacy law requirements across multiple jurisdictions, including GDPR provisions on lawful data processing, CCPA, and state-level electronic surveillance statutes, placing user-side responsibility for ensuring consent before using generative AI for tracking or monitoring applications.
Interpretive note: The provision does not define the technical or operational scope of tracking or monitoring, creating ambiguity for analytics, location services, and employee monitoring use cases.
Under this clause, users are prohibited from using Google's generative AI to develop or deploy tracking or monitoring capabilities without the consent of the individuals being tracked or monitored. The agreement does not define the technical scope of tracking or monitoring, which may create interpretive ambiguity for location services, analytics, or employee monitoring use cases.
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1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages GDPR Article 6 and Article 9 lawful basis requirements for processing location and behavioral data, CCPA consumer rights over personal information, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act governing electronic surveillance, …
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This provision engages privacy law requirements across multiple jurisdictions, including GDPR provisions on lawful data processing, CCPA, and state-level electronic surveillance statutes, placing user-side responsibility for ensuring consent before using generative AI for tracking or monitoring applications.
Under this clause, users are prohibited from using Google's generative AI to develop or deploy tracking or monitoring capabilities without the consent of the individuals being tracked or monitored. The agreement does not define the technical scope of tracking or monitoring, which may create interpretive ambiguity for location services, analytics, or employee monitoring use cases.
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