Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) is now a part of Sensitive Data Protection. The API name remains the same: Cloud Data Loss Prevention API (DLP API). For information about the services that make up Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection overview.
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This page describes how to grant the required role to a service agent so
that it can be used to profile data at the organization or folder level.
Perform these tasks if both of the following conditions apply:
You created a scan configuration at the organization or folder level.
Sensitive Data Protection isn't generating any data profiles
for the scan configuration. When you view configuration
errors,
you see the following error message:
None of the driver projects (PROJECT_ID) have MISSING_PERMISSION
permission for organizations/ORGANIZATION_ID.
Get the ID of the service agent
Get the service agent ID that is associated with
your scan configuration:
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