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Electronic Media

Electronic Media refers to storage systems such as hard drives, computers, USB, optical disk or any medium in which data can be stored in the digital format. Additionally, any medium used to transmit data such as the internet, extranet, dial up lines, private networks are considered as electronic media.

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