All 99 Articles Chapter 1: General Provisions
Defines what kinds of processing the GDPR applies to — broadly, the automated or structured processing of personal data — and the narrow activities it does not cover.
Key points
- Applies to wholly or partly automated processing, and to manual processing of data held in a filing system.
- Does not apply to purely personal/household activity, or to law-enforcement and national-security processing covered by other instruments.
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