e24702_SN008 Translated from French 3 REPUBLIC OF SENEGAL One People – One Goal – One Faith Law No. 2008-11 on Cybercrime The National Assembly adopted, at its session of Friday, November 30, 2007, The Senate adopted, at its session of Tuesday, January 15, 2008, And the President of the Republic hereby promulgates the Law set out below: Article 1 Title III, "Offenses relating to information and communication technologies", consisting of Articles 431-7 to 431-65 set out below, shall be inserted after Article 431-6 of the Penal Code. TITLE III: OFFENSES RELATING TO INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER: TERMINOLOGY Article 431-7 Under the present Law: 1. electronic communication means any making available to the public or a section of the public of signs, signals, writings, images, sounds or messages of any kind through an electronic or magnetic communication process; 2. computerized data means any representation of facts, information or concepts in a form suitable for processing in a computer system; 3. racist or xenophobic in relation to information and communication technologies means any piece of writing, image or other representation of ideas or theories that advocates or encourages hatred, discrimination or violence against a person or a group of persons on grounds of race, color, ancestry or national or ethnic origin, or religion insofar as it is used as the pretext for hatred, discrimination or violence on one or other of the grounds mentioned, or that incites such acts; 4. minor means any person below the age of 18 years, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; 5. child pornography means any material, irrespective of its nature and form, that visually depicts a minor engaged in a sexually explicit act or realistic images representing a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct; 6. computer system means any device, whether isolated or not, or any group of interconnected devices which, in whole or in part, performs automatic processing of data pursuant to a program.