You cannot use Perplexity to gather other people's personal information without permission, build stalking or tracking tools, or conduct surveillance without consent.
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This provision addresses AI-enabled privacy violations, including the use of generative AI to build surveillance or data harvesting tools targeting individuals without their knowledge.
Users who attempt to use Perplexity to build surveillance tools, harvest personal data, or enable stalking violate this policy; the prohibition covers both direct surveillance and tool development for those purposes.
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"You may not use the Services to collect, process, or store personal information of others without authorization, to conduct unauthorized surveillance, or to build tools designed to enable stalking, tracking, or monitoring of individuals without their knowledge and consent.Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Acceptable Use Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages CCPA and CPRA in California, GDPR in the EU, and various US state consumer privacy laws, all of which restrict unauthorized collection and processing of personal information.
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This provision addresses AI-enabled privacy violations, including the use of generative AI to build surveillance or data harvesting tools targeting individuals without their knowledge.
Users who attempt to use Perplexity to build surveillance tools, harvest personal data, or enable stalking violate this policy; the prohibition covers both direct surveillance and tool development for those purposes.
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