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(b)
includes voice recognition relating features, digital finger-printing or such
other biotechnological features or process, as may be prescribed;
“electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless,
optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities;
“electronic record” means a record created, generated, sent, communicated, received or
stored by electronic means;
“function” includes logic, control, arithmetic, deletion, storage and retrieval and
communication or telecommunication to, from or within a computer system;
“information and communication service” means any service involving the use of
information and communication technologies including telecommunication services;
“information and communication technologies” means technologies employed in
collecting, storing, using or sending out information and include those involving the use
of computers or any telecommunication system;
“intercept” in relation to a function of a computer, includes listening to, or recording a
function of a computer, or acquiring the substance, its meaning or purport of such
function;
“investigatory authority” means the police or any other body lawfully empowered to
investigate any offence;
“key” means either a public or private key;
“modification” means a modification of the contents of any computer system by the
operation of any function of that computer system or any other computer system as a
result of which (a)
any program or data held in the computer system is altered or erased;
(b)
any program or data is added to its contents; or
(c)
any act occurs which impairs the normal operation of the computer
system;
“password” means any data by which a computer service or a computer system is
capable of being obtained or used;
“private key” means the key of a key pair used to create a digital signature;
"program" 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;