Texas Code of Criminal Procedure

§ 18A.001 — DEFINITIONS

CR § 18A.001Title 1. CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Ch. 18A. DETECTION, INTERCEPTION, AND USE OF WIRE, ORAL, AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

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In this chapter:

(1)"Access," "computer," "computer network," "computer system," and "effective consent" have the meanings assigned by Section 33.01, Penal Code.

(2)"Aggrieved person" means a person who was a party to an intercepted wire, oral, or electronic communication or a person against whom the interception was directed.

(3)"Aural transfer" means a transfer containing the human voice at any point between and including the point of origin and the point of reception.

(4)"Communication common carrier" means a person engaged as a common carrier for hire in the transmission of wire or electronic communications.

(5)"Computer trespasser" means a person who accesses a protected computer without effective consent of the owner and has no reasonable expectation of privacy in a communication transmitted to, through, or from the protected computer. The term does not include a person who accesses the protected computer under an existing contractual relationship with the owner or operator of the computer.

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1058 (H.B. 2931), Sec. 1.01, eff. January 1, 2019.