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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 on the Bill and it had to move on. The proposal was that Mr Ambrosini and Mr Jeffery would draft relevant provisions that would guide the Department. A sub-committee comprising Mr Ambrosini, Ms Smuts and Mr Jeffery would deal with all further aspects of the Bill.  Mr Jeffery said that anybody would be welcome to attend the meetings.“

The Sub-Committee held further meetings to discuss the Protection of Personal Information Bill on 8 and 9 April 2010.  As mentioned these meetings were open to the public.  A number of issues were tabled and discussed.  The following things stood out for us:

1. The exclusion of application on journalists seems set to remain, which is a good thing.
2. It looks like the personal information of juristic persons will be protected.  In other words the data subject can be either a natural person or a juristic person.
3. The name of the regulator will be the Information Regulator and not the Information Protection Regulator.  This makes sense in our view as the regulator will regulate both the PPI Bill and the PAI Act.
4. The grace period of one year will not be extended to three years.
   
5. The deliberations regards special personal information will continue on 3 May 2010.
   

We will keep you updated.

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