By personal data we mean any information about an identified or identifiable person. In other words, all that information that allows a person to be directly or indirectly identified. This could be a name, phone, photo, address and location, voice or email, among others.
There are also personal data, such as fingerprints or the iris, which have special protection. These are the so-called biometric data, which allow the unequivocal identification of the person based on a specific technical treatment. This special protection also extends to genetic data, which refer to inherited or acquired genetic characteristics of a person, which provide unique information about him or her.
And what does it mean to treat personal data?
By processing personal data we mean any operation carried out on personal data, whether it is done automatically or not. For example: the collection, registration, organisation, structuring, conservation of data, its adaptation or modification, extraction, consultation, use, communication and transmission, dissemination or any other form of access, limitation, deletion or destruction.
