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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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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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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
This is an index of the legal resources related to privacy (especially regards the workplace) from 2006 to 10 September 2009.
Electronic communications - email, entrapment, internet, SMS, tapping
Refer also to: Evidential aspects
Note: See "Code of Practice on the Protection of Workers' Personal Data" [ILO, Geneva, Meeting of Experts on Workers' ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
The Protection of Personal Information Bill (PPI Bill) was published on 25 August 2009. An explanatory memorandum has also been published. Ask yourself these questions:
Do you collect personal information? For example, do you ask your customer to provide you with information about them? Do you send out a personalised newsletter. ...
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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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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
People often get confused between a Bill and an Act. The life cycle of an Act of Parliament can be confusing and people often do not know when they still have an opportunity to influence the legislation and when they need to start preparing to comply with it.
For this reason, ...
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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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Friday, August 14th, 2009
There are many benefits to be gained by managing your emails properly. These are some of them:
the ability to automatically migrate the emails to other storage media, thereby making the email servers more efficient and users more productive;
the ability to make the email system serve as an organisational knowledge store, ...
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
The Protection of Personal Information Bill (POPI or PPI Bill) has been a topic of discussion in the industry for many years now. Many people have been wondering when it will become law and what is the current status. There has understandably been a lot of interest.
we are now waiting for ...
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Nowadays a customer email database is a very important asset to a business. Why has it become so popular? Simply because emails are cheap and easy to distribute. Direct marketers still phone people, but reaching people through email has become even more popular as it is more targeted. Email databases ...
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