The term „processing“ is defined as „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;“ (BlnDSG §31, 2020; EU GDPR Article 4 No. 2, 2016). Processing therefore refers to any form of working with personal data, from collection to erasure.