[Huawei Developers] Martin Bieber:
Privacy and security is a key tenet of the Huawei Mobile Services (HMS), and Huawei puts a strong emphasis on ensuring that its various services – including HUAWEI Ads, HUAWEI AppGallery Connect, AppGallery, Petal Search, and more – achieves the highest level of privacy compliance and standards. As a testament to this dedication, HMS achieved the ePrivacyseal accreditation from ePrivacy back in 2020.

ePrivacy is one of the world’s leading organisation for certifying data security and privacy protection. The organisation applies high technical and legal standards in carrying out the tests forming part of the certification process, including adherence to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) from the European Union. In particular, the ePrivacyseal certification can only be achieved after an in-depth audit of a company's online and mobile products. The catalogue of criteria for certification is continuously being adapted to the interpretation of GDPR and other data protection laws, designed to ensure that companies are completely compliant with the regulations.

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The ePrivacyseal certification involves a lengthy and extensive accreditation process to ensure compliance with various global data protection standards. The organisation experts conducted an in-depth audit of the various HMS services over a three-month period, examining each product in light of any applicable technical, organizational and legal requirements. Therefore, the ePrivacy certifications are an indisputable testament to Huawei’s commitment to providing compliant and trusted services through HMS.

Protecting user privacy remains a top priority for Huawei, and is a key tenet that is strictly enforced across the company’s various business units and subsidiaries. HMS is steadfast in its goal to serve its users while remaining compliant with the laws and regulations around the world. The company achieves this by not only integrating industry-leading security technologies, but also adopting a privacy-first mentality when approaching its product design. In protecting user privacy, Huawei has outlined four pillars of privacy – Transparency, Benefits to User, [SL1] Security, and Legal Compliance – that informs every single phase of its product development process.

For instance, Huawei employs local differential privacy technology to preserve the privacy of its users, which prevents original information about the app from being uploaded. This is done so by masking users’ individual data with statistical noise so that the uploaded information cannot be associated with users device. Relevant differential privacy patterns only emerge when individual data merged with the data of a large number of other users to average out the noise information. These patterns ensure that Huawei is unable to collect personal information that can identify individual users, meeting the requirements laid out by various global laws and regulatory processes.

In addition, HMS has obtained a significant number of privacy and security certifications recognised globally over the past few years. These include ISO/IEC 27001 and CSA STAR security certifications in 2015, as well as the ISO/IEC 27701, and ISO/IEC 27018 in 2019. HUAWEI ID also achieved the esteemed EuroPriSe certification back in 2020 while AppGallery Connect was recently accredited with multiple SOC privacy and security certifications in April this year.

Huawei believes privacy is a fundamental consumer right and its work on privacy will not just end there. Moving forward, the company will continue to invest in user data privacy protection, prioritising cybersecurity and privacy for all of its products and services. Huawei is determined to provide the utmost level of security for every aspect of the Huawei user experience using innovative and reliable technology.

For more information, please visit https://consumer.huawei.com/en/privacy/. You may also read the latest HMS Security Technical White Paper here.

[SL1]Follows the naming convention of the whitepaper.