Processing

Also known as: data processing, data use, handling information, process data, processing operation, using personal data

In plain language

Anything you do with personal data — collecting, storing, sharing, changing, or deleting it — counts as processing.

For example

Adding a customer to a CRM, backing up a database, sending a marketing email.

Go deeper

Processing means doing almost anything with personal data, including collecting, recording, organising, viewing, using, sharing, storing, changing, combining, restricting or deleting it. An organisation can therefore process information without analysing or selling it. Even routine storage and access are part of the personal-data lifecycle and should be governed deliberately.

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