Today ended, the events around "Security and Privacy Awareness Month"Her Xiaomi held at Xiaomi Science and Technology Park, in Beijing.
Μamong the relevant actions, h Xiaomi presented its data protection and privacy practices to its employees, industry leaders and experts, and to the general public. In addition, it has published two White Papers on security and privacy and a report on data protection.
This is the second year that Xiaomi organizes "Security and Privacy Awareness Month”. This year, the central message was, "Security is a shared responsibility. We always think before we act”. The aim was to highlight Xiaomi's commitment to setting industry-leading standards for security and privacy, as well as transparency.
Mr. Cui Baoqiu, Vice President Xiaomi and head of Xiaomi's Security and Privacy Committee, he said
Protecting user data has always been a priority for Xiaomi. In 2014, the company established the Security and Privacy Committee. In 2016, Xiaomi was the first Chinese brand to be certified by TrustArc. In 2018, Xiaomi adopted the EU Community Directive, “General Regulation on Data Protection”(GDPR). In 2019, Xiaomi's security and privacy practices were certified to ISO / IEC 27001 and ISO / IEC 27018. The first edition of the MIUI White Paper on Security and Privacy was also published.
During this year “Security and Privacy Awareness MonthXiaomi employees and visitors were informed through an interactive presentation on security issues, such as how to protect personal data. The training sessions for the employees of the company, covered different topics per department, such as “How to integrate privacy protection into product development","Safe Research and Development", and "Business risk control”. The competition Xiaomi Cup CTF gave thousands of engineers the opportunity to become "hackers" and participate in a programming contest, solving privacy challenges. The company also invited, for the training of its employees, certified trainers from International Association of Privacy Professionals.
At the same time, Xiaomi organized an open discussion on Security and Privacy, in which a panel of industry leaders participated. Among them the Margaret Honda, Global Research Manager at IAPP, Brad Ree, CTO at ioXt, David Mudd, Global Digital Product Certification Director at BSI, Scott Roberts, Director of Android Security Assurance at Google, Richard Watson, Lead Partner at APAC Cybersecurity Risk Management at EY , and Paul Breitbarth, Director of Global Policy & EU Strategy at TrustArc.
Mr. Richard Watson, Lead Partner of APAC Cybersecurity Risk Management at EY, noted that consumers expect their information to be collected and stored securely. The most important factors in sharing personal data with a business is the process of secure collection and storage (63%), control of shared data (57%), and trust (51%). Mr. Paul Breitbarth, Director of Global Policy & EU Strategy of TrustArc, advising organizations on the international transfer of user data, referred to the importance of providing assurance to data operators, who verification actions.
In the context of “Security and Privacy Awareness Month”Also released two major privacy issues: the MIUI White Paper on Privacy and the Xiaomi IoT White Paper on Privacy. These publications include a summary of the MIUI and IoT product privacy policies and explain the type of personal data collection and use.
They also outline the privacy policy for each application contained in MIUI and all IoT sharing products. Versions are available from “trust center”By Xiaomi.
Finally, Xiaomi published the Transparency Report for 2020 at https://trust.mi.com/, which presents the requests that Xiaomi received from governments and police services from around the world, as well as how it responded to each of them.
Transparency, accountability, user control, security and compliance are the principles of Xiaomi's privacy policy, which complies with the legal framework of all markets in which it operates. Xiaomi will never stop producing safe and reliable products around the world to help people live a better life through innovative technologies.
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