Processing Of Personal Information - Processing Limitation

The Protection of Personal Information Bill 2009 (POPI or the Bill*) aims to bring South Africa in line with international data protection laws. The impact of this legislation will be far-reaching and will significantly affect the way companies collect, store and disseminate personal information. Members of our Information Law and Data Protection Group provide some insight into the implications of POPI in this series of Snapshots.

In previous Snapshots we discussed that the Bill sets out eight conditions that responsible parties will need to consider for the processing of personal information to be lawful. Accountability, the first condition, was examined in the previous Snapshot. This Snapshot considers Processing Limitation, the second of the eight conditions.