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3552227 - Photo API & Data Privacy Consent Statement (DPCS)

Symptom

The Data Privacy Consent Statement (DPCS) guide outlines that the DPCS decision of an employee is respected by Photo API:

  • Creating Data Privacy Consent Statements
     
    Profile Photo – displays a statement when employees edit their profile photos in People Profile. They can decide whether they accept that their profile photos can be used for certain purposes. The Photo API queries also respect the user's decision on the statement.

  

However, you still observe employee who have declined the DPCS are still being extracted via Photo API

Image/data in this KBA is from SAP internal systems, sample data, or demo systems. Any resemblance to real data is purely coincidental.

Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors HCM Core
  • Data Privacy Consent Statement (DPCS)
  • OData API

Resolution

The DPCS decision is respected by Photo API.

  • Photo records will still be returned via API for all employees but for users who have declined the DPCS the Photo/photo field (whihc stores the image content) will be removed:
      

 

Keywords

KBA , LOD-SF-INT-ODATA , OData API Framework , How To

Product

SAP SuccessFactors HCM Core all versions