‘‘originator’’ means a person by whom, or on
whose behalf, a data message purports to have
been sent or generated prior to storage, if any, but
does not include a person acting as an
intermediary with respect to that data message;
“password” means a data by which a computer
service or a computer system is capable of being
obtained or used;
‘personal data’ means any information relating to
an identified or identifiable natural person;
‘‘private body’’ means
(a) an individual who carries or has carried on
any trade, business or profession, but only
in that capacity;
(b) a partnership which carries or has carried
on any trade, business or profession; or
(c) any former or existing body corporate, but
not a public body;
"private key" means the key of a key pair used to
create a digital signature;
"programme" means a set of instructions,
expressed in words, codes, schemes or any other
form, which is capable, when incorporated in a
machine readable medium, of causing a computer
to perform or achieve a particular task or result;
“processing” means processing of personal data;
“processing of personal data” means an operation
or set of operations which is performed upon
personal data, whether or not by automatic means,
such as, collection, recording, organisation,
storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consul
tation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemi
nation or other-wise making available, alignment or
combination, blocking erasure or destruction;
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