Podcast | Pop In With POPIA

The Act sets out certain exceptions to the abovementioned rule.

South Africa's Information Regulator has issued an enforcement notice against Central Johannesburg TVET College for multiple violations of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), including failure to register...

For most organisations, the direct marketing of products and services to customers and potential customers is a vital source of business.

With the imminent grace period for organisations complying with the POPIA coming to an end on 30 June 2021, it is now crunch time for organisations to ensure that their processing activities are compliant with POPIA's conditions.

By and large, the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 ("POPIA") only imposes obligations, duties and liabilities on the responsible party.

Data breaches have become an everyday reality in the 21st century and have, alarmingly, impacted numerous respected, large enterprises.

Many organisations have embarked on a journey to ensure that they are compliant with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), which became enforceable on 1 July 2021.

The substantive provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 4 of 2013 (POPIA), which spell out the rights and obligations of persons and companies collecting and using the personal information of others, are to come into effect from 1 July 2020.

When organisations assign unique identifiers like account numbers or reference codes to individuals, do these identifiers fall outside data protection laws? A recent South African court case challenges conventional assumptions about what constitutes personal information under POPIA, raising critical questions about pseudonymisation, identifiability standards, and compliance obligations that every organisation processing such data must understand.

Cyber-attacks, ransomware and data breaches are becoming increasingly more frequent and a threat to the day-to-day operations of a business. The recent data leak by Experian has...