Default privacy configuration for Android

In the default TLFConfigurableItems.properties file, the privacy configuration settings are specified to mask data:

#Masking settings
HasMasking=true
MaskIdList=com.tealeaf.sp:id\/EditText*,com.tealeaf.sp:id\/login.password
HasCustomMask=true
SensitiveSmallCaseAlphabet=x
SensitiveCapitalCaseAlphabet=X
SensitiveSymbol=#
SensitiveNumber=9

In the configuration, privacy in Android is defined as follows:

• Since HasMasking=true, privacy is enabled.
• Since HasCustomMask=true, a custom mask is applied. So, data masking is enabled. If it was false, then it would use blocking.
• The masking characters are defined in the Sensitive settings.

The list of fields in the response data to which to apply the mask is defined in the MaskIdList, where fields are delineated by a comma. In the default configuration, there are two fields, defined by using regular expressions.

com.tealeaf.sp:id\/EditText*

For the specified namespace, privacy masking is applied to all fields whose id includes /EditText. For Android applications, this configuration applies privacy to all fields where text is entered, which is the safest, most conservative privacy configuration.

com.tealeaf.sp:id\/login.password

For the specified namespace, privacy masking is applied any field that includes /login.password, which might correspond to the identifier for the password field in your application.

The value before the colon in each regular expression (com.tealeaf.sp) identifies the namespace to which the regular expression is applied.

You can use these configuration settings or modify them to meet the requirements for your application. The following sections describe data blocking and data masking in general, and examples are provided later in the section.

Configure data blocking

When the HasCustomMask setting is set to false, the masking function returns an empty string, which is inserted in place of the value to be masked.

Configure masking