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Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes
No. 5
by the Cabinet Secretary responsible for matters relating to
national security by notice in the Gazette for the purposes
of Part III of this Act;
"blockchain technology" means a digitized,
decentralized, public ledger of all crypto currency
transactions;
"Cabinet Secretary" means the Cabinet Secretary
responsible for matters relating to internal security;
"Central Authority" means the Office of the Attorney
General and Department of Justice;
"Committee" means the National Computer and
Cybercrimes Co-ordination Committee established under
section 4;
"computer data storage medium" means a device,
whether physical or virtual, containing or designed to
contain, or enabling or designed to enable storage of data,
whether available in a single or distributed form for use by
a computer, and from which data is capable of being
reproduced;
"computer system" means a physical or virtual device,
or a set of associated physical or virtual devices, which use
electronic, magnetic, optical or other technology, to
perform logical, arithmetic storage and communication
functions on data or which perform control functions on
physical or virtual devices including mobile devices and
reference to a computer system includes a reference to part
of a computer system;
"content data" means the substance, its meaning or
purport of a specified communication;
"critical information infrastructure system or data"
means an information system, program or data that
supports or performs a function with respect to a national
critical information infrastructure;
"critical infrastructure" means the processes, systems,
facilities, technologies, networks, assets and services
essentials to the health, safety, security or economic wellbeing of Kenyans and the effective functioning of
Government;
"cybersquatting" means the acquisition of a domain
name over the internet in bad faith to profit, mislead,
No. 49 of 2012.