Data Privacy And Information Security – What We Know And What We Have Yet To Learn

As February signals the end of the holiday period and the beginning of the serious part of the year, I have been reflecting on what we know in the privacy and data space and, more importantly, what we have yet to learn.

Privacy professionals will remember how long and tortured the journey was to have the Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act (POLA) passed on the very last day of parliament in December 2024. Some of those provisions are not scheduled to commence until December this year - including the requirement to report on automated decision-making - while others have been slowly moving forward. That led me to wonder what developments are currently in progress that would give the business community and privacy practitioners certainty around best practices when handling personal information.