The policy prohibits using OpenAI services to aggregate, monitor, profile, or distribute individuals' private or sensitive information without their authorization, in addition to the specific biometric and likeness prohibitions enumerated separately.
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This provision establishes a general prohibition on privacy-compromising use cases that applies across all information types, supplementing the specific biometric and categorical prohibitions with a broad restriction on unauthorized aggregation, monitoring, and distribution of personal information.
Interpretive note: The provision does not define 'authorization' or specify what consent standard satisfies the requirement, creating interpretive uncertainty for applications that rely on legal bases other than explicit individual consent.
This provision establishes that OpenAI services cannot be used to compile, monitor, profile, or distribute individuals' private or sensitive information without those individuals' authorization, covering a broad range of personal data aggregation and surveillance use cases.
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Compare across platforms →"People are entitled to privacy. So, we don't allow attempts to compromise the privacy of others, including to aggregate, monitor, profile, or distribute individuals' private or sensitive information without their authorization. And, you may never use our services for: facial recognition databases without data subject consent real-time remote biometric identification in public spaces use of someone's likeness, including their photorealistic image or voice, without their consent in ways that could confuse authenticityExcerpt from OpenAI's Usage Policies
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages GDPR's general lawfulness of processing requirements and purpose limitation principles, enforced by EU data protection supervisory authorities.
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This provision establishes a general prohibition on privacy-compromising use cases that applies across all information types, supplementing the specific biometric and categorical prohibitions with a broad restriction on unauthorized aggregation, monitoring, and distribution of personal information.
This provision establishes that OpenAI services cannot be used to compile, monitor, profile, or distribute individuals' private or sensitive information without those individuals' authorization, covering a broad range of personal data aggregation and surveillance use cases.
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