35With regard to the concept of ‘data-processing’, first, the first paragraph of Chapter I provides that such processing consists in handling information of all kinds, in pre-established logical sequences and for a specific purpose or purposes. Secondly, in the light both of the general scheme of that explanatory note and its context, it follows that that concept must be understood as involving, in principle, the exploitation of data, such as recording, modifying, storing, converting or publishing that data.
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