Such processing includes ‘profiling’ that consists of any form of automated processing of personal data evaluating the personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning the data subject's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences or interests, reliability or behaviour, location or movements, where it produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her.
Áirítear ar phróiseáil den sórt sin “próifíliú”, arb é atá i gceist leis foirm ar bith de phróiseáil uathoibrithe a dhéantar ar shonraí pearsanta lena meastar na gnéithe pearsanta a bhaineann le duine nádúrtha, go háirithe chun anailís nó tuar a dhéanamh ar ghnéithe a bhaineann le feidhmíocht an ábhair sonraí ag an obair, le staid eacnamaíochta, le sláinte, le roghanna pearsanta nó le díol spéise, le hiontaofacht nó iompar an duine sin, leis an áit ina bhfuil an duine sin nó le gluaiseachtaí an duine sin, i gcás ina mbíonn éifeachtaí dlíthiúla mar thoradh air sin a bhaineann leis nó léi nó a mbíonn éifeachtaí comhchosúla suntasacha aici air nó uirthi.