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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
The PPI Bill or POPI was again debated by the the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee for Justice on 2 March 2010. Various issues were raised and debated. The final section of the minutes read as follows:
"The Chairperson expressed concern over the fact that the Committee was spending a lot of time ...
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
How will it help you ?
By default the Chief Executive Officer of a private body or the Head of a public body is the Information Officer - this is as per the Promotion of Access to Information Act. This template letter will allow you to change the default position and ...
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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, February 4th, 2010
Wondering how the Protection of Personal Information Bill (PPI Bill) will affect you? We offer a webinar (online seminar) on the subject. Get a working understanding of the affect of privacy and protection of personal information issues on your organisation and its business. Get up to speed quickly.
Reserve your seat ...
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
How will it help you?
The purpose of this document is to map the activities of your organisation concerning personal information (PI) so that the obligations with which it needs to comply can be determined. It is one of the first steps of a successful Privacy and Protection of Personal Information ...
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
How will it help you?
It will protect the organisation in the following ways:
reduce potential legal liability in respect of claims by employees or third parties;
protect proprietary or confidential business information from unauthorised access or disclosure to third parties;
prevent losses (e.g. of data and other proprietary information), errors, and mistakes
educate employees ...
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
You must comply with the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 (PAIA), because it applies to all organisations.
The word cloud on the right provides an overview of the PAI Act. From the word cloud you can see that:
the most important theme is access
the main role players are ...
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
People often ask us to provide an overview of an ICT law - the big picture. It is often very difficult to do this effectively. Recently we found a great web based tool called Wordle. Worlde enables you to create word clouds. A word cloud is like a tag ...
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
Virtually every organisation makes use of a third party vendor or service provider (basically any provider of ICT goods or services) to process their personal information. For example, if an organisation outsources part of their IT function, then a third party will almost certainly be processing personal information. Another example ...
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Saturday, September 26th, 2009
The passing of South Africa's privacy law - the Protection of Personal Information Bill - has been fast tracked.
The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development invites stakeholders and interested persons to submit written submissions on the Protection of Personal Information Bill [B 9 - 2009].
Comments can be emailed to ...
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