CAP. 124B
Computer Misuse
L.R.O. 2005 4
s.3
"computer system" means a device or a group of inter-connected or
related devices, including the Internet, one or more of which,
pursuant to a programme, facilitates communication, performs
automatic processing of data or any other function;
"damage" includes
(a) any impairment to a computer or the integrity or availability
of any data or programme held in a computer;
(b) the impairment of the confidentiality of information held in
a computer;
"electronic, acoustic, mechanical or other device" means any device
or apparatus that is used or capable of being used to intercept any
function of a computer;
"intercept" includes, in relation to a computer, listening to or
recording a function of a computer, or acquiring the substance,
meaning or purport of the function;
"programme or computer programme" means data or a portion of data
representing instructions or statements that, when executed in a
computer, causes the computer to perform a function;
"service provider" means
(a) a public or private entity that provides to users of its
services the ability to communicate by means of a computer
system; and
(b) any other entity that processes or stores computer data on
behalf of that entity or those users;
"traffic data" means computer data that
(a) relates to a communication by means of a computer system;
(b) is generated by a computer system that is part of a chain of
communication; and