Processing
can be any activity or set of activities performed on personal data, e.g. viewing, collecting, storing, transferring, modifying, erasing. Simply put, pretty much anything you do with your customers’ data on purpose is “processing.”
GDPR Art. 4 (2): ‘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;
Ideas implemented from constrained points of view (biased developers, designers, sysadmins) will NOT BENEFIT YOUR online strategies, harming your long-term competitiveness.