Acts 2017 475 “telecommunication network” means a system, or a series of systems, operating within such boundaries as may be prescribed, for the transmission or reception of messages by means of guided or unguided electro magnetic energy or both; “third party” means a person or public body other than a data subject, a controller, a processor or a person who, under the direct authority of a controller or processor, who or which is authorised to process personal data; “traffic data” means any data relating to a communication by means of a computer system and generated by the system that form part in the chain of communication, indicating the communication’s origin, destination, route, time, date, size, duration, or type of underlying service; “Tribunal” means the ICT Appeal Tribunal set up under section 35 of the Information and Communication Technologies Act. 3. Application of Act (1) This Act shall bind the State. (2) For the purposes of this Act, each Ministry or Government department shall be treated as separate from any other Ministry or Government department. (3) This Act shall apply to the processing of personal data, wholly or partly, by automated means and to any processing otherwise than by automated means where the personal data form part of a filing system or are intended to form part of a filing system. (4) This Act shall not apply to – (a) the exchange of information between Ministries, Government departments and public sector agencies where such exchange is required on a need-to-know basis; (b) the processing of personal data by an individual in the course of a purely personal or household activity.