IoT Privacy White Paper - Xiaomi

8. Glossary



Identified

Used to describe the Identification Qualifier of user data.

When data is classified as 'Identified', it means that the data is linked to you. If data is linked with a user/system/device level identifier, such as Mi Account ID, IMEI, or Android ID, it will be classified as Identified.

Identified

Pseudonymized

Used to describe the Identification Qualifier of user data.

When data is classified as 'Pseudonymized', it means that the data is not linked with you directly. Your data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, such as some Device Information, Behavior Data collected in Mi Fitness, it will be classified as pseudonymized.

Pseudonymized

Anonymized

Used to describde the Identification Qualifier of user data.

When data is classified as 'Anonymized', it means that the data is not linked with you. If data is not linked with a user/device level identifier, it will be classified as Anonymized.

Anonymized

DND

DND is short for Do not disturb. Users can switch the DND mode on to silence the voice reporting of Mi Robot Vacuum.

SN

SN is short for Serial Number. The SN is a unique identifier assigned incrementally or sequentially to an item, to uniquely identify it.

IMEI

IMEI is short for International Mobile Equipment Identity. IMEI is a unique number to identify mobile phones.

MAC

MAC is short for Media Access Control. MAC is a unique identifier assigned to a network interface controller for use as a network address in communications within a network segment.

BLE

BLE is short for Bluetooth Low Energy. BLE is a wireless personal area network technology.

HTTPS

HTTPS is short for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol over SecureSocket Layer. HTTPS is an HTTP channel with security as its goal. On the basis of HTTP, the security of the transmission process is guaranteed through transmission encryption and identity authentication.

MQTT

MQTT is short for MQ Telemetry Transport. MQTT is a lightweight, publish-subscribe, machine to machine network protocol. It is designed for connections with remote locations that have devices with resource constraints or limited network bandwidth.

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi is short for Wireless Fidelity. Wi-Fi is a wireless local area network technology created in the IEEE 802.11 standard.

GPS

GPS is short for Global Positioning System. GPS is a high-precision radio navigation positioning system based on artificial earth satellites.

AES

AES is short for Advanced Encryption Standard. AES is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001.

ECDH

ECDH is short for Elliptic Curve Diffie–Hellman. Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman (ECDH) is a key agreement protocol that allows two parties, each having an elliptic-curve public–private key pair, to establish a shared secret over an insecure channel.