The Computer and Cybercrimes Bill, 2016
Act;
“Cabinet Secretary” means the Cabinet Secretary responsible for
matters relating to Information, Communications and Technology;
No. 36 of 2011.
“Central Authority” has the same meaning assigned to it under
section 2 of the Mutual Legal Assistance Act, 2011;
“computer data storage medium” means any 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 any physical or virtual device, or any 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;
“data” means any representation of facts, information or concepts in
a form suitable for processing in a computer system, including a program
suitable to cause a computer system to perform a function;
“interception” means the monitoring, modifying, viewing or
recording of non-public transmissions of data to or from a computer
system over a telecommunications system, and includes, in relation to a
function of a computer system, listening to or recording a function of a
computer system or acquiring the substance, its meaning or purport of
such function;
“interference” means any impairment to the confidentiality,
integrity or availability of a computer system, or any program or data
on a computer system, or any act in relation to the computer system
which impairs the operation of the computer system, program or data;
“premises” includes land, buildings, movable structures, vehicles,
vessels or aircraft;
“program” means data representing instructions or statements that,
if executed in a computer system, causes the computer system to
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