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"electronic" means, relating to technology, having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities; "function" includes logic, control, arithmetic, deletion, storage and retrieval, and communication and telecommunication to, from or within a computer or computer system; "information and communication service" means any service involving the use of information and communication technology, including telecommunication services; "information and communication technology" means any technology employed in the collecting, storing, using or sending out of information, including any technology involving the use of computers or any telecommunication system; "intercepts" means the aural or other acquisition of the contents of any electronic, magnetic, optical or oral communication through the use of any device; "national emergency organisations" include the police force, security forces, fire brigade, ambulance services, medical services, veterinarian services and environmental disaster agencies, whether or not such organisations are owned and managed on a private or public basis; "password" means any data by which a computer service, computer or computer system is capable of being obtained, accessed or used; "programme" means an instruction or 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 or computer system to achieve a particular task or result; "property" means property of any kind, nature or description, whether moveable or immoveable, tangible or intangible, and includes(a) any currency whether or not the currency is legal tender in Botswana; (b) information, including an electronically produced programme or data or copy thereof, whether tangible or intangible, human or computer-readable data, or data in transit; or (c) any right or interest in property; "service provider" means any public or private person who(a) provides to users of its services the ability to communicate by means of a computer or computer system; (b) processes or stores computer data on its behalf or on behalf of the users of its services; or (c) provides an information and communication service, including telecommunication; "subscriber" means a person who lawfully uses the service of a service provider;

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