Processing
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
‘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.
MWEGeneral Data Protection Regulation
Senses
California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018
“Processing” means any operation or set of operations that are performed on personal information or on sets of personal information, whether or not by automated means.
Wordset Dictionary
preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure
Classifications
Entity Type
Process95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity
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Information Class
—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- synonym
- data processingpersonal dataprocess personal data
- plural
- Processings
- possessive
- Processing's
- pluralpossessive
- Processings'