What does the Data Protection Level option in field creation do?

[Former Member]

Hello experts

So there's this new option in field creation called Data Protection Level. Can anyone explain to me what it does? There are two options: Personal Data and Sensitive Personal Data. What happens if I choose the first one, the second one? I don't see much documentation on this yet. If you have a link to an article, can you share?

Thanks

[mahuya · Accepted solution]

Hi Denmar,

This field is created in accordance with the Data protection and privacy rules. To directly answer your question, here's an excerpt from the help documentation:

• Personal Data: If you select this option, the following happens:
  • The content of the field is destroyed when the corresponding business object instance is removed using the data removal process
  • The change log is removed
  • The field becomes valid for data disclosure
• Sensitive Personal Data: Whenever these fields are viewed by an end user, a Read Access Log (RAL) entry is created.

To understand more about this, please follow this blog:

https://blogs.sap.com/2017/10/09/what-is-gdpr-how-can-sap-hybris-cloud-for-customer-help-you-comply-...

This has all the details.

You can also see this document:

https://help.sap.com/viewer/abfba1342cfb4832ab722fa041f6c4b7/1802/en-US/a2b9a34013e64d299c634084c9e3...

Regards,

mahuya

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you!

[renken158 · Accepted solution]

Hi Mahuya,

From the documents, I can see the sensitive personal data can be seen RAL log.

But I can't find any differences between None option and Personal Data option, could you please help to explain it a little bit? Thanks.

BR

Harvey