The present application discloses a data processing method and apparatus. A specific implementation of the method includes: simultaneously acquiring, by a data processing party, data to be used by a plurality of data receiving parties, and processing the to-be-used data according to processing mode information that is received in advance from each data receiving party and that indicates a processing mode for the to-be-used data, to obtain processed to-be-used data corresponding to the data receiving party; and storing the processed to-be-used data into a storage area corresponding to the data receiving party. An independent data processing party for simultaneously acquiring data that needs to be processed by each data receiving party is provided, so that the data that needs to be processed by each data receiving party is acquired at a time.