data-protection
Is a step by step route considered as personal data?
<p>I would like to know whether a route between two physical places A and B, with its different step by step streets, can be considered as a personal data and should be processed as it. We don't know whether the user is going to type a direction with number or just the street name, for example, and the intermediary streets we will provide are just composed by street name and city. We are not able to know whether the user is typing its home or workplace.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

<p>Thinking about personal data becomes a bit easier when you start thinking of it as biographical data: information about an identifiable person.</p>

<p>Does the data in question tell a story about a person (that I can identify or may be able to identify if I tried)? </p>

<p>I need to fill out some detail to help you out...</p>

<p>For example, once you know that:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>I looked at/considered taking/searched for a route on (say) my phone, the data is personal data.</p></li>
<li><p>I walked that route (or parts of it) at a particular time of day or date, it is personal data. </p></li>
</ol>

<p>Also, if you store the route information that I queried ("type a direction with number or just the street name"), and associate it with me it's personal data (about me). </p>
