The API getUser retrieves user full name inside display name instead of display name (GDPR violation)

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The rest API’s
https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v2/#api-group-Users, https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/#api-group-Users
and also the Jira expression “user” https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/jira-expressions-type-reference/#user
all retrieve full name instead of display name in the displayName field.

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I believe this is the expected behaviour. The public name is only returned when the full name is set to private.

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But then shouldn’t it be the field “name” instead of “displayName”? Lets say I want to find a user by it’s display name. How do I do that if displayName isn’t what it’s supposed to be? It’s confusing and a field shouldn’t keep two different values from two different fields! It should have a single responsibility.

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Totally agree.
Produces the same confusion here too.
Was there progress on the subject?