“…‘processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction…”
Retrieved from General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679 Article 4. European Union (EU) Commission. (2018). https://eugdpr.org/