# LINDQUIST, 6.11.2003 (“LINDQUIST”)

- Type: Case Law
- Source: CJEU
- Date: 2003-11-06
- Original: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62007CJ0557&ref=6195
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/6195
- Topics: Personal Data, Processing, Lawful Basis, Right to Restriction, Statistics

## Summary

Definition of processing: The operation of loading personal data on an internet page must be considered to be processing. (¶ 25)

## Full text

## Court Summary

Definition of processing: The operation of loading personal data on an internet page must be considered to be processing. (¶ 25)

## Excerpt

25        According to the definition in Article 2(b) of Directive 95/46, the term ‘processing’ of such data used in Article 3(1) covers ‘any operation or set of operations which is performed upon personal data, whether or not by automatic means’. That provision gives several examples of such operations, including disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making data available. It follows that the operation of loading personal data on an internet page must be considered to be such processing.

## Cited law provisions (2)

### GDPR — gdpr-art-3-par-1-en

This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not.

### GDPR — gdpr-art-2-en

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