Examples in Other Jurisdictions

• In the Council of Europe's draft Convention on Cyber-crime, a "computer system" means "any device or a group of inter-connected devices which pursuant to a program performs automatic processing of data".

• The US Code Title 18 Section 1030 on "fraud and related activity in connection with computers" defines "computer" as follows -

• "an electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other high speed data processing device performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions, and includes any data storage facility or communications facility directly related to or operating in conjunction with such device, but such term does not include an automated typewriter or typesetter, a portable hand held calculator, or other similar device"

• The Canadian Criminal Code Part IX on "Offences Against Rights of Property - Offences Resembling Theft" provides the following definitions of "computer system" and "computer program" -

  "computer system means a device that, or a group of interconnected or related devices one or more of which,

  1. contains computer programs or other data; and
     
  2. pursuant to computer programs,
     
     1. performs logic and control; and
        
     2. may perform any other function,

computer program means data representing instructions or statements that, when executed in a computer system, causes the computer system to perform a function."

Source: Inter-departmental Working Group on Computer Related Crime Report