takes into account the specific requirements of the fight against
cybercrime;
Having also regard to the Action Plan adopted by the Heads of State and
Government of the Council of Europe on the occasion of their Second
Summit (Strasbourg, 10 and 11 October 1997), to seek common responses
to the development of the new information technologies based on the
standards and values of the Council of Europe;
Have agreed as follows:
Chapter I – Use of terms
Article 1 – Definitions
For the purposes of this Convention:
a
"computer system" means any device or a group of interconnected
or related devices, one or more of which, pursuant to a program,
performs automatic processing of data;
b
“computer data” means any representation of facts, information or
concepts in a form suitable for processing in a computer system,
including a program suitable to cause a computer system to perform
a function;
c
“service provider” means:
d
i
any public or private entity that provides to users of its service
the ability to communicate by means of a computer system,
and
ii
any other entity that processes or stores computer data on
behalf of such communication service or users of such
service;
“traffic data” means any computer data relating to a communication
by means of a computer system, generated by a computer system
that formed a part in the chain of communication, indicating the
communication’s origin, destination, route, time, date, size,
duration, or type of underlying service.
Chapter II – Measures to be taken at the national level
Section 1 – Substantive criminal law
Title 1 – Offences against the confidentiality, integrity and availability
of computer data and systems
Article 2 – Illegal access
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