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Encryption, platform and data-protection terms, defined

Look up encryption, platform and data-protection terms used on this site. Each entry gives a short definition, a fuller explanation and how the term applies to Enclessa.

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  • Because the terms in an encrypted collaboration purchase are used inconsistently across the market, and a buyer comparing two vendors is often comparing two different meanings of the same word. Defining them in public makes Enclessa easier to check rather than easier to sell.
  • No. Some entries define a capability Enclessa has only in part or not at all — a platform-wide legal hold, and compliance export in archiving-platform formats such as Actiance XML — and each says so in its own entry rather than leaving the definition to imply otherwise.
  • No, and Enclessa avoids the phrase. Direct messages and group direct messages are end-to-end encrypted with MLS and the server holds no key for them; channels are, by default, managed rooms the server can read so that search, retention and export work; and metadata, account data and billing data are visible to Enclessa in every case.
  • None. DSGVO is the German name for the GDPR — Datenschutz-Grundverordnung — and refers to the identical Regulation (EU) 2016/679. What is genuinely separate is the German Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, which fills in the areas the regulation leaves to member states.