1. This law guarantees that the processing of personal data is carried out in compliance with the rights, fundamental freedoms, as well as the dignity of natural persons, with particular reference to confidentiality and personal identity; it also guarantees the rights of legal persons and of any other body or association.
2. For the purposes of this law:
a) for "database", any set of personal data, divided into one or more units located in one or more sites, organized according to a plurality of specific criteria such as to facilitate their treatment;
b) for "treatment", any operation or set of operations, carried out with or without the aid of electronic or automated means, concerning the collection, registration, organization, storage, processing, modification, selection, extraction, comparison, use, interconnection, blocking, communication, dissemination, cancellation and destruction of data;
c) for "personal data", any information relating to a natural person, legal person, entity or association, identified or identifiable, even indirectly, by reference to any other information, including a personal identification number;
d) for "owner", the natural person, the legal person, the public administration and any other body, association or body responsible for decisions regarding the purposes and methods of processing personal data, including the security profile;
e) for "responsible", the natural person, the legal person, the public administration and any other entity, association or body appointed by the owner to process personal data;
f) for "interested party", the natural person, the legal person, the body or the association to which the personal data refer;
g) for "communication", giving knowledge of personal data to one or more specific subjects other than the interested party, in any form, including by making them available or consulting them;
h) for "dissemination", the giving knowledge of personal data to unspecified subjects, in any form, including by making them available or consulting them;
i) for "anonymous data", data which originally, or following processing, cannot be associated with an identified or identifiable interested party;
l) for "block", the retention of personal data with temporary suspension of any other processing operation;
m) for "Guarantor", the authority established pursuant to article 30.