Cyber Security and Data Protection
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communications network or critical information infrastructure or any
other device or equipment or any part thereof, to perform predetermined
arithmetic, logical, routing or storage operations in accordance with
set instructions and includes—
(a) input devices;
(b) output devices;
(c) processing devices;
(d) computer data storage mediums;
(e) programmes; and
(f) other equipment and devices,
that are related to, connected or used with, such a device or any part
thereof and “device” shall be construed accordingly;
“computer data storage medium” means any device or location from which
data is capable of being reproduced or on which data is capable of
being stored, by a computer device, irrespective of whether the device
is physically attached to or connected with the computer device;
“computer system” means interconnected or related computer devices, one or
more of which uses a programme to perform the automatic processing
of data, exchange data with each other or any other computer system
or connect to an electronic communications network;
“critical information infrastructure” means computer systems, devices,
networks, computer programmes, computer data, so vital to the country
that the incapacity or destruction of or interference with such systems
and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, defence,
economic and international affairs, public health and safety, or to
essential services as defined in section 19 of the Criminal Law Code
including the banking system and “critical data” shall be construed
accordingly;
“cybercrime” means any offence under this Act;
“data” means any representation of facts, concepts, information, whether
in text, audio, video, images, machine-readable code or instructions,
in a form suitable for communications, interpretation or processing
in a computer device, computer system, database, electronic
communications network or related devices and includes a computer
programme and traffic data;
“hosting provider” means any person providing an electronic data
transmission service by storing of information provided by a user of
the service;
“hyperlink” means a characteristic or property of an element such as symbol,
word, phrase, sentence or image that contains information about another
source and points to and causes to display another document when
executed;
“information and communications technologies” means a device or interconnected or related devices that are used or that are responsible for the
creation, transmission, receiving, processing or collation of digital data
by making use of computer, software, networking, telecommunications,
Internet, programming and information system technologies;
“information system” means a device or inter-connected or related devices,
one or more of which uses a programme to automatically processes
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