What is Processing?

A wholly or partly automated operation or set of operations performed on digital personal data, and includes operations such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation, retrieval, use, alignment or combination, indexing, sharing, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, restriction, erasure or destruction.

Source: The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (No. 22 of 2023)

Any action done with personal data using computers or digital systems. This covers the entire lifecycle: collecting, storing, organizing, analyzing, sharing, and deleting data. Even automated decisions made by AI fall under processing.

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