POPIA: Focus on Consent and Legitimate Interest
Companies and business entities have been given a one-year period in which to comply with the legislated requirements of the Protection of Personal Information...
POPIA Checklist – Can you meet the eight conditions of POPIA before it becomes...
From 1 July 2021, the substantive implementation of key provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) will finally become enforceable. This legislation,...
D-Day for POPI Act compliance looming
After a seven year wait President Ramaphosa has announced that 01 July 2020 is D-Day for the commencement of the POPI Act. Businesses will...
The notification of data breaches in South Africa will soon be required by law
According to the Gemalto Breach Level Index, released in March 2017, South Africa experienced nine reported security breaches in 2016. Across Africa, 45.2 million records...
At last, POPIA
On 22 June 2020, two important commencement dates were announced for the remaining sections of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA or the...
POPIA: Litigants, is your personal information protected?
Litigation by its very nature involves the disclosure of information. Mechanisms built into the legal process, such as, among others, discovery, allow for disclosure...
How are you dealing with POPIA in your practice?
Practising law includes processing some personal information that you must protect. This means you need to be considering data protection and POPIA. All legal...
PoPI pressure mounts as deadline looms closer
Once the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (PoPI Act) is made effective, companies will have a year’s grace period to become compliant with...
Webinar on POPIA Exclusions – Processing Personal Information – 11th March 2022
There has been much debate about the exclusions that POPIA provides for processing personal information for journalistic, literary and artistic purposes. For example, who is...
Asking the right questions about POPI and compliance
Digital transformation is touching every sector as well as every industry, disrupting the traditional market leaders, value chains and conventional ways of doing business...
Your clients may be POPIA compliant, but what about your law firm?
On our Tech Talk Legal discussion series, we are going to discuss the compliance of POPIA for law firms in South Africa, not the...
