Security & data sovereignty
Personal data lives with the person. The platform never owns it.
One unifying architecture for everyone — organisations, consumers, communities, governments. Personal data in your pod or on your device. Platform data in specific open regions. Aggregate insights as an open commons for the continent.
What this page covers
- Personal data lives with the person
- Encryption end-to-end
- Operated by a small, accountable team
- Dignity defaults
Personal Web3 pods on the Nyuchi Honeycomb network are in development and not available yet. Until they ship, platform-held data follows the rules for platform data on this page.
Personal data lives with the person
Personal data is designed to sit on your device or in your Web3 pod, encrypted under your keys, with no server-side copy we could read. Pods are in development. Platform data — the relational and document stores that run the service — lives in specific open regions chosen against an open-data policy, and aggregate insights flow into an open data commons for the continent. POPIA, the Zimbabwe Data Protection Act, and GDPR are the floor for platform-held data, but residency is not the architecture — pod sovereignty is the goal.
Encryption end-to-end
TLS 1.3 in transit, AES-256 at rest, customer-managed key options on Enterprise. Audit logs are append-only and tamper-evident. Backups are encrypted and tested quarterly.
Operated by a small, accountable team
Access is scoped, named, and time-bound. Production changes go through code review and on-call rotation. We publish post-mortems for incidents above an SLO threshold so customers can read what actually happened.
Dignity defaults
No dark patterns, no attention-resale, no biometric collection without explicit consent. Verification ladders exist to give people more capability — not to gate basic dignity behind a queue at a government office.
For the full data architecture — the four ownership categories, where each kind of data lives, and who can read it — see/data.
Reporting a security issue
If you believe you have found a vulnerability in any Nyuchi product or surface, emailsecurity@nyuchi.comwith reproduction steps. We acknowledge within one business day, will coordinate disclosure, and credit you in our public security advisories if you'd like.