According to Art. 4 No. 1 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, i.e. the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter "GDPR"), "processing" means any operation or set of operations performed with or without the aid of automated procedures, such as collecting, recording, organizing, storing, adapting, retrieving, reading out, using, disclosing by transmission, dissemination, or any other form of provision, alignment or combination, restriction, deletion, or destruction of personal data.