Processing of data is defined as ‘Obtaining, recording, or holding the information or data or carrying out any operation or set of operations on the information data’ including:
- Manipulating the data in some way:
- Organising and retrieving the data
- Adaption, alteration or modification of the data
- Use of the information of data
- Transmitting the data and making the data available
- Destroying, blocking or erasing the data
For example, if someone sends you a CV and you store that CV on your PC you are a data processor