Is ethical hacking a cybercrime in SA? The short answer: generally not, but it could be. Okay, so I’ve given you the short answer. Yay! But obviously, you need to know my reasoning so that when someone asks you if [...]
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” - Nelson Mandela. Children's online privacy has become increasingly important as they use more digital media than any other generation. Technology [...]
Social media poses lots of risks. Many of these risks stem from the fact that the lines between our professional and personal lives are blurring. We are taking our work home with us and often bringing our personal lives to [...]
The Personal Information Protection Law commonly known as the PIPL is the Chinese Data protection law. It provides direction on rules for processing personal and sensitive information including the legal basis and disclosure requirements. It also introduces rules for personal [...]
Email, widely used for business purposes, is inherently insecure. Criminals exploit the insecurity of email by intercepting it and changing or compromising the information the actual sender communicates. This cybercrime has become known as business email compromise (BEC). In [...]
On 8 June 2022 Michalsons hosted our first Lexverse Conference in South Africa. The legal universe about digital, data and emerging technologies. It was a chance for people to connect and interact, brainstorm and collaborate, discover something new and [...]
Picture it: your home, last night—a buttery chardonnay in hand and a need for reassurance. So, in a moment of gentle vanity, you decide to Google yourself. You type in your name, press enter, and the search engine reveals about [...]
In Tiso Blackstar v Steinhoff, two media houses won their court bid for access to Steinhoff's accounting records. This judgment marks another victory for the media because it upholds the media's right to information by considering their right to freedom [...]
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) want the EU to set the global standard for AI. While the MEPs recognise that the EU has lagged in the global race for AI leadership, they still believe the Union must set the standard. [...]
