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Twilio Conversations

This Integration requires Fides Cloud or Fides Enterprise. For more information, talk to our solutions team. (opens in a new tab)

Twilio Conversations (opens in a new tab) is a messaging platform to enable developers to build communication features into their applications.

Prerequisites

An owned database must be configured to store Twilio data for privacy request processing. To learn how to integrate with a database, please see our guide for integrating with databases.

In order to integrate with Twilio Conversations, you'll need to collect the following information:

NameDescription
Domain*Your Twilio Conversations URL (default:conversations.twilio.com)
Account ID*Your Account SID. Learn more in the Twilio Conversations guide for API authentication (opens in a new tab)
Access token*Your access token from the Twilio Conversations Console. Learn more in the Twilio Conversations guide for API authentication (opens in a new tab)
User SID field*The location in your owned database where you store Twilio User IDs. Format: _dataset.collection.field_

Integrating with Twilio Conversations

To integrate an existing system with Twilio Conversations:

  1. Navigate to Data mapView Systems and choose the system that you want to connect.
  2. Click on the Integrations tab.
  3. Pick the vendor or system type that you want to integrate with from the Connection type drop-down menu.
  4. Complete the required fields for the integration and click Save.

You may confirm your connection is working using the Test connection button, if desired.

To learn more, please see our guide for Managing Integrations.

Technical detail

Fides utilizes API endpoints to access the API service for a SaaS application. An API service is the programmatic interface through which Fides can query and update data within an application to access, rectify, or delete personal information. Each SaaS tool will have a unique set of endpoints to enable privacy functions.

Twilio Conversations endpoints

In the table below, you can find which endpoints are used for each type of privacy function. Clicking on the endpoint will take you to the documentation for that endpoint.

Privacy functionEndpointDescription
Access RequestsUser (opens in a new tab)Returns information about a user
Update or Erasure RequestsUser (opens in a new tab)Used to mask or erase information about a user
Access RequestsUser Conversations (opens in a new tab)Returns a user's conversations
Access RequestsConversation Messages (opens in a new tab)Returns a user's conversation messages
Update or Erasure RequestsConversation Messages (opens in a new tab)Used to mask or erase a user's conversation messages
Access RequestsConversation Participants (opens in a new tab)Returns information about a conversation participant