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- BlackBerry Spark
- Security library for Android applications
- 0.6.0.1366-beta
Enable anonymous threat research data be collected on the device and sent to the BlackBerry Cloud for analysis. More...
As part of BlackBerry's Mobile Threat Defense suite of features, this feature collects data that BlackBerry believes may assist in finding new, previously undetected, threats, and increasing confidence in the detection of threats. The information may bring benefits to either future static checks and/or future training of machine learning models, and thus advances BlackBerry's products.
The categories of sensor being used and thus data collected are:
We collect nothing in the information which allows identification of the individual user or device or organization. There is no way for BlackBerry, or the organization using BlackBerry solution to process the data to determine the identity of the source of the data. A randomly generated Anonymous App Identifier is created per application, this is used so that anonymous data collected over time from the same application instance can be collated. However, this identifier is different and unique from any identifier that either the app developer or BlackBerry is aware of.
This random Anonymous App Identifier is stored encrypted in the secure container which protects all of runtime Library data and is deleted when either the app is un-installed or is deactivated. This Anonymous App Identifier is unique per application. For example if the user had 3 applications protected by BlackBerry Spark on the same device, each would return a different identifier and thus data is not associated together.
The data is used internally within the BlackBerry's R&D organization. Even within the organization only individuals with a genuine need to access the data are granted access after following an approval process. The data is not available in any form to anyone outside of BlackBerry. The data is stored in Amazon AWS S3 storage for data analysis and processing.
If this feature is enabled anonymous data collection information will be reported every 6 hours (or next time app starts if more than 6 hours have passed). Data collection is configured to only upload over a WiFi connection and to upload a maximum of 100MB per month. Certain types of information are collected at application startup only and other types during the course of an application running.
Use the methods in this class to alter the data limits and networks used whilst uploading.
We would encourage application developers to enable this feature by adding the following:
Classes | |
| enum | UploadMonthlyLimit |
| Enumeration defining how much data can be uploaded per month. More... | |
| enum | UploadType |
| Enumeration defining what type of network should be used when uploading data. More... | |
Public Member Functions | |
| DataCollectionRules | enableDataCollection () |
| Enable data collection. More... | |
| DataCollectionRules | disableDataCollection () |
| Disable data collection and uploads. More... | |
| DataCollectionRules | setUploadType (@NonNull UploadType uploadType) |
| Set the type of network to use when uploading anonymous data. More... | |
| DataCollectionRules | setUploadMonthlyLimit (@NonNull UploadMonthlyLimit uploadMonthlyLimit) |
| Control how much data is uploaded per month. More... | |
| boolean | dataCollectionIsEnabled () |
| Check if data collection has been enabled. More... | |
| UploadType | getUploadType () |
| Check network types permitted during data upload. More... | |
| UploadMonthlyLimit | getUploadMonthlyLimit () |
| Check how much data may be uploaded per month. More... | |
| DataCollectionRules enableDataCollection | ( | ) |
Enable data collection and uploads. By default, data collection is disabled.
| DataCollectionRules disableDataCollection | ( | ) |
Disable data collection and uploads
| DataCollectionRules setUploadType | ( | @NonNull UploadType | uploadType | ) |
Set the type of network to use when uploading anonymous threat research data to the BlackBerry Cloud for analysis.
| DataCollectionRules setUploadMonthlyLimit | ( | @NonNull UploadMonthlyLimit | uploadMonthlyLimit | ) |
Select whether to permit 10MB, 50MB, and 100MB of data to be uploaded to BlackBerry per month. By default, the upper limit of 100MB is configured.
| boolean dataCollectionIsEnabled | ( | ) |
Check if data collection has been enabled. By default, data collection is disabled.
| UploadType getUploadType | ( | ) |
Check what network types are permitted when uploading data.
| UploadMonthlyLimit getUploadMonthlyLimit | ( | ) |
Check how much data may be uploaded per month.