How You Work with Protected Information

In Oracle Cloud applications, your access to protected information depends on your job role. In case you don't have access to the information you need to work with, contact the IT security manager for the necessary privileges.

Securing and protecting customer information against data breaches, data theft, or unauthorized access is an increasing concern in any enterprise. To address this issue, Oracle Applications Cloud provides restricted access to information that's considered private to an individual, also known as Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

PII is any information that uniquely identifies an individual, such as personal phone number, personal email address, personal address, citizenship number, or Social Security Number (SSN). You can use PII data to uniquely identify, contact, or locate an individual, or you can use it with other sources to uniquely identify a person. For example, a SSN uniquely and directly identifies an individual, whereas a telephone area code identifies a set of people.

The attributes that are identified as PII are as follows:

• Home Address

• Home Phone Number

• Personal Email Address

• Taxpayer Identification Number (Social Security Number)

In Oracle Applications Cloud, access to the PII data is restricted to a set of job roles. If you need to work with PII data for business purposes, then contact the IT security manager for the necessary privileges.