§ 24 NDSG
Definitions
(1)For the purposes of this Part, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(2)"personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter: data subject), whereby an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;
(3)"processing" means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
(4)"restriction of processing" means the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future;
(5)"profiling" means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements;
(6)"pseudonymisation" means the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person;
(7)"controller" means the competent public body within the meaning of § 23(1) and (2) which, within the scope of its tasks, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data;
(8)"processor" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller;
(9)"recipient" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with the law of the Member States shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing;
(10)"personal data breach" means a breach of security leading to the destruction, loss or alteration, whether accidental or unlawful, or to the unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed;
(11)"genetic data" means personal data relating to the inherited or acquired genetic characteristics of a natural person which provide unique information about the physiology or the health of that natural person and which result in particular from an analysis of a biological sample from the natural person in question;
(12)"biometric data" means personal data resulting from specific technical processing relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics of a natural person, which allow or confirm the unique identification of that natural person, such as facial images or dactyloscopic data;
(13)"data concerning health" means personal data related to the physical or mental health of a natural person, including the provision of health care services, which reveal information about his or her health status;
(14)"special categories of personal data" means personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health, and data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation;
(15)"supervisory authority" means an independent public authority established by a Member State pursuant to Article 41 of Directive (EU) 2016/680;
(16)"international organisation" means an organisation and its subordinate bodies governed by public international law, or any other body which is set up by, or on the basis of, an agreement between two or more countries;
(17)"Schengen-associated State" means a State which applies the provisions of the Schengen acquis on the basis of an association agreement with the European Union on the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis and is equivalent to the Member States of the European Union in that regard;
(18)"consent" of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes in the form of a statement or by a clear affirmative action by which the data subject signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her;
(19)"anonymisation" means the alteration of personal data in such a manner that individual data relating to personal or factual circumstances can no longer, or only with a disproportionately great effort of time, cost and labour, be attributed to a specific or identifiable natural person.