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Updated on 2022-08-30 GMT+08:00
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Personal Data Protection Mechanism

To ensure that your personal data, such as your username, password, and mobile phone number, will not be breached by unauthorized or unauthenticated entities or people, HSS encrypts your personnel data before storing it to control access to the data.

Personal Data

Table 1 lists the personal data generated or collected by HSS.

Table 1 Personal data

Type

Collection Method

Can Be Modified

Mandatory

Email

If 2FA is enabled, HSS periodically obtains from SMN the email addresses subscribing to notification topics.

No

Yes

Mobile phone number

If 2FA is enabled, HSS periodically obtains from SMN the mobile phone numbers subscribing to notification topics.

No

Yes

Login location

If HSS is enabled, it records user login locations.

No

Yes

Storage Mode

HSS uses encryption algorithms to encrypt users' sensitive data and stores encrypted data.

  • Mobile phone number are encrypted before storage.
  • Login locations are not sensitive data and stored in plaintext.

Access Control

User personal data is encrypted before being stored in the HSS database. The whitelist mechanism is used to control access to the database.