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What is processing?

Article 4 paragraph 2 GDPR: ”„processing”: an operation or a set of operations relating to personal data or a set of personal data, whether or not carried out by automated processes, such as collecting, recording, organizing, structuring, storing, updating or… 

What is a data processor?

Article 4 paragraph 8 GDPR: ”Data Processor: a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that processes personal data on behalf of the controller;” The recitals often refer to “the controller or the processor” who must comply… 

What are purposes?

Article 5 paragraph 1 sub b GDPR: Personal data must be collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner incompatible with those purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or… 

What are personal data?

Article 4 paragraph 1 GDPR: “Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“the data subject”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an… 

What is a data subject?

Article 4 paragraph 1 GDPR: ”Data subject: an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number,…