POPI defines “Processing” as: “…any operation or activity or any set of operations, whether or not by automatic means, concerning personal information, including:

• the collection, receipt, recording, organisation, collation, storage, updating or modification, retrieval, alteration, consultation or use;
• dissemination by means of transmission, distribution or making available in any other form; or
• merging, linking, as well as restriction, degradation, erasure or destruction of information.”