Colorado Revised Statutes Title 16. Criminal Proceedings § 16-15-101. Definitions

(1) “Aggrieved person” means a person who was a party to any intercepted wire, oral, or electronic communication or a person against whom the interception was directed.

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

(2) “Common carrier” means any person engaged as a common carrier for hire, in intrastate, interstate, or foreign communication by wire or radio, or in intrastate, interstate, or foreign radio transmission of energy.

(3) “Contents”, when used with respect to any wire, oral, or electronic communication, includes any information concerning the substance, purport, or meaning of that communication.

(3.3) “Electronic communication” means any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic, or photooptical system that affects interstate or foreign commerce but does not include:

(3.5) “Electronic communication service” means any service which provides to users thereof the ability to send or receive wire or electronic communications.

(3.7) “Electronic communications system” means any wire, radio, electromagnetic, photooptical, or photoelectronic facilities for the transmission of electronic communications and any computer facilities or related electronic equipment for the electronic storage of such communications.

(4) “Electronic, mechanical, or other device” means any device or apparatus which can be used to intercept a wire, oral, or electronic communication, other than:

(4.5) “Electronic storage” means:

(5) “Intercept” means the aural or other acquisition of the contents of any wire, electronic, or oral communication through the use of any electronic, mechanical, or other device.

(6) “Investigative or law enforcement officer” means any officer of the United States or of the state of Colorado or a political subdivision thereof, who is empowered by law to conduct investigations of, or to make arrests for, offenses enumerated in title 18, C.R.S., and any attorney authorized by law to prosecute or participate in the prosecution of those offenses.

(7) “Judge of competent jurisdiction” means any justice of the supreme court of Colorado and a judge of any district court of the state of Colorado.

(8) “Oral communication” means any oral communication uttered by any person believing that such communication is not subject to interception, under circumstances justifying that belief, but does not include any electronic communication.

(8.5) “Readily accessible to the general public” means, with respect to a radio communication, that such communication is not:

(8.6) “Tracking device” means an electronic or mechanical device which permits the tracking of the movement of a person or object.

(8.7) “User” means any person or entity which uses an electronic communication service and is duly authorized by the provider of such service to engage in such use.

(9) “Wire communication” means any aural transfer made in whole or in part through the use of facilities for the transmission of communications by the aid of wire, cable, or other like connection, including the use of such connection in a switching station, between the point of origin and the point of reception, furnished or operated by any person engaged in providing or operating such facilities for the transmission of communications and includes any electronic storage of such communication.