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Tuesday, April 13th, 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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Sunday, March 28th, 2010
Many organisations that operate in South African and the United States are concerned about compliance with the Massachusetts data protection law. You can find out more about it here and here. And you can read it by clicking here. It is interesting to consider it in conjunction with the Protection ...
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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 ...
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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
To find out about this webinar that we are currently offering, please visit the web site of Michalsons Attorneys.
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
How will it help you?
The tool is in the form of a spreadsheet. Its purpose is to identify the types of personal information(PI) you collect, store and use.
It focuses on:
Customer PI that you hold; and
Employee PI that you hold.
Customer PI
The assessment usual involves the following, but will be tailored for your ...
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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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