"processing"

means any operation or activity or any set of operations, whether or not by automatic means, concerning personal information, including—

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