Definition
DPDP Act 2023 · s. 2(x)Any wholly or partly automated operation on digital personal data, from collection and storage through use, sharing and disclosure to erasure and destruction. Almost everything a business does with data is processing. A purely manual operation on paper is not, which is why the Act keys off digital form.
"processing" in relation to personal data, means 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.