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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Many people are asking why they need to be aware of and, comply with the Protection of Personal Information Bill (PPI Bill)? What are the risks associated with privacy? What is the impact on an organisation? What is the risk of non-compliance?
Well apart from it being a new law, it ...
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
This is an index of the legal resources related to the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 from 2006 to 10 September 2009
General
[Journal Articles]
Van Coller, EH De Jure (2006) 39:01:163 - "Transparency and Access to Documents: A General Principle of European Community Law?"
Lewis, D ILJ(UK) (2006) 35:324-328 ...
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
What is cryptography?
Wikipedia defines "cryptography" as "the practice and study of hiding information". What purpose does this serve? To:
establish its authenticity;
prevent its undetected modification;
prevent its repudiation and;
prevent ...
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
Many people have heard the term "CA", but are not exactly clear what it means or what a CA does.
In the world of information security, a CA is a "certification authority" who plays an important role in creating that 'trust'.
The identification and authentication of the parties in cyberspace remains a ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
On the one hand, virtually every organisation processes personal information - it is an important part of business. Up until now, there have been very few laws and regulations that an organisation had to comply with. That is about to change. Organisations will still be able to process personal ...
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
On Friday 14 August 2009, the Protection of Personal Information Bill was passed by Cabinet.
To understand the path that the Bill will now have to follow through Parliament before it comes law, read our post on "The Life Cycle of an Act of Parliament".
Also have a look at the IT ...
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Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Find out about the cyber crimes that exist in South African law and how they affect you or your business. Our law recognises the criminal threat that exists to cyberspace and as a result cyber crimes were introduced into our law by Chapter XIII of the Electronic Communications and Transactions ...
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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
The acronym ICT is often used in many different contexts. For example, people refer to the ICT industry, ICT sector, ICT companies, ICT law, the ICT BEE Charter, ICT governance and ICT legislation. But what is the acronym ICT actually short for? With the acronym you lose the "and" and ...
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Saturday, May 30th, 2009
Information security policies v IT policies v HR policies
We frequently get asked by companies to draft or review their policies relating to inter-alia e-mail and Internet use, the use of company owned computers, access controls to the company's network and the use of memory sticks, CD writers and other portable ...
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
Highlight: There are three current trends in information security:
Information security is no longer just a technical issue for the IT Department - it is now a legal obligation.
The emergence of a legal standard against which compliance will be measured.
A new emphasis on a duty to disclose breaches of information security.
Introduction
The ...
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