5/
“traffic data” means any computer generated data relating to a chain of
communication by means of a computer system indicating the
communication’s origin, destination, route, time, date, duration, size or
types of underlying service;
6/
“content data” means any computer data found in the form of audio, video,
picture, arithmetic formula or any other form that conveys the essence,
substance, meaning or purpose of a stored or transmitted computer data or
computer communication;
7/
“network” means the interconnection of two or more computer systems by
which data processing service can be provided or received;
8/
“computer data security” means the protection of a computer data from
deleting, changing, and accessing by unauthorized person, compromising
its confidentiality or any other damage;
9/
“access” means to communicate with, to enter in, store in, store data in,
retrieve, or obtain data from, to view, to receive, move or copy data from a
computer system, or otherwise make use of any data processing service
thereof;
10/
“critical infrastructure” means a computer system, network or data where
any of the crimes stipulated under article 3 to 6 of this proclamation, is
committed against it, would have a considerable damage on public safety
and the national interest;
11/
“interception” means real-time surveillance, recording, listening,
acquisition, viewing, controlling or any other similar act of data
processing service or computer data;
12/
“spam” means unsolicited e-mails transmitted to multiple electronic
accounts at a time;
13/
“service provider” means a person who provides technical data processing
or communication service or alternative infrastructure to users by means
of computer system;
14/
“Ministry” or “Minister” means the Ministry or Minister of Justice,
respectively;
15/
“Public Prosecution Department” means federal public prosecutor
department legally vested with the power and function of prosecution or
delegated regional state public prosecutor departments;
16/
“investigatory organ” mean a person legally invested with the power of
investigation;
17/
“regional state” means any state referred to in Article 47(1) of the
Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and for the
purpose this Proclamation it includes Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa city
administrations;
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