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3453796 - Unable to Mark Employee for Deletion in Personal Data Removal

Symptom

You are using the Personal Data Removal tool to remove employee data through the Data Protection and Privacy work center, however you are not able to mark certain employees for deletion as the "Marked for Deletion" checkbox is greyed out.

Environment

SAP Cloud for Customer

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Data Protection and Privacy work center.
  2. Enter the Personal Data Removal view.
  3. Select the All Employees query.
  4. Click on the Remove Data button.

Here in the list that appears, the employee cannot be marked for deletion.

Cause

This behavior happens since the employee was not yet terminated, or has not gone through the retention period.

You can find more information regarding retention period configuration on the following Help Center documentation:

Remove Personal Data

Resolution

The system works as expected.

Keywords

GDPR, data removal, EUDP , KBA , AP-RC-DP-RAL , Data Privacy: Read Access Logging , Problem

Product

SAP Cloud for Customer core applications all versions