# How does the Rest API PD cleaner work?

**URL:** <https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/how-does-the-rest-api-pd-cleaner-work/54374>\
**Category:** Jira Cloud\
**Tags:** gdpr, rest-api\
**Created:** [December 12, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/how-does-the-rest-api-pd-cleaner-work/54374 "2021-12-12T17:49:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![MichaelIlewicz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@MichaelIlewicz](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/MichaelIlewicz)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/how-does-the-rest-api-pd-cleaner-work/54374/1 "2021-12-12T17:49:50Z")

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I am storing some JQL in my issue field config. I would like to be GDPR compliant and wanted to use the PD cleaner to convert user details to account ID but how does that work? I have attempted to send a query with my email, name (escaped string literals because of @) and accountId and they always come back with empty converted objects… Am I doing something wrong?