Processor
nounid
5044·updated May 18, 2026verified
An entity that provides data and information processing services to other legal persons, entities and organizations. A processor entity may be an application, platform, infrastructure, data storage (as a service) organization, or a private or public cloud-providing business entity.
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Classifications
Entity Type
Role75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Sensitivity
—90%rule-basedr:sens.regulated.framework.v1
Information Class
—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Variants
- synonym
- central processing unitcontrollerdata processorpersonal dataprocessing
- plural
- Processors
- possessive
- Processor's
- pluralpossessive
- Processors'
Framework definitions
- §1
- ‘Processor’ means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.
- §1
- “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.
- §1
- (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing
- §2
- a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market
- §3
- someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.)
- §1 · glossary
- An entity that provides data and information processing services to other legal persons, entities and organizations. A processor entity may be an application, platform, infrastructure, data storage (as a service) organization, or a private or public cloud-providing business entity.Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
- §1 · legacy_primary
- “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.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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