Cyber and Data Protection Act, 2021 Zimbabwe (a) input devices; (b) output devices; (c) processing devices; (d) computer data storage mediums; (e) in an aggravating circumstance certified by the Cyber Security and Monitoring Interception of Communications Centre to be a breach of State Security to a fine not exceeding level 14 or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding ten years or to both such fine and such imprisonment; (f) programmes; and (g) 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; "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 computer data as well as computer data stored, processed, retrieved or transmitted by that device or inter-connected or related devices for the purposes of its or their operation, use, protection or maintenance; "pornography" includes any representation, through publication, exhibition, cinematography, electronic means or any other means whatsoever, of a person engaged in real or simulated explicit sexual activity, or any representation of the sexual parts of a person for primarily sexual purposes; "programme" means data or a set of instructions which, when executed in a computer, causes the computer to perform a function; By Laws.Africa and contributors. Licensed under CC-BY. Share widely and freely. 16