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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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 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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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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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Recently Helaine Leggat was one of the guests on Kaya FM to comment on the interception of email, voice, or other communications in the workplace and the right to privacy in the workplace.
Caution: The audio files on Michalsons can be large. Most are about 2.5MB in size and last for ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Do you use CCTV cameras? Are people aware that you are recording their every move? You might be infringing their right to privacy!
Whether or not a person is able to claim that an audio or visual recording is "private", will depend on whether:
the person subjectively (from their point of ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
This is an index of legal resources related to Privacy (especially regards the workplace) as at 6 September 2008.
Electronic Communications - email, entrapment, internet, SMS, tapping
Note: See "Code of Practice on the Protection of Workers' Personal Data" [ILO, Geneva, Meeting of Experts on Workers' Privacy, Geneva 1-7 October 1996] published ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
CURRENT POSITION
In terms of our law the right to privacy is protected in terms of both the South African common law and in section 14 of the Constitution of South Africa 1996. In both instances the right is limited and to prove an infringement will most probably be fairly difficult. ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2003
What is privacy?
Privacy is a wide concept. It includes separate, but related concepts, such ...
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