Electronic Communications Law

Electronic communications law includes the law regards telecommunications, broadcasting and electronic communications. Electronic communications law also deals with SMS law, and email law relating to email archiving, email usage and email compliance.

Does your email disclaimer comply with the law?

Your company almost certainly has an email disclaimer. Often, it is a huge block of text that appears at the bottom of an email, which nobody reads and just clutters up everyone’s inbox. At other times, it is incorporated by [...]

By |2025-10-08T11:05:42+02:00October 7th, 2025|Categories: Email Law|Tags: , |
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Must an ISP RICA its customer?

An ISP only needs to RICA (or verify the identity of) its customers if it provides an electronic communications service (ECS) as defined by law. We can help you know whether you must RICA your customers by giving you a [...]

By |2023-03-23T13:32:43+02:00March 22nd, 2023|Categories: Electronic Communications Law, Monitoring Law|Tags: |
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DKIM: what is it and why does it matter?

Email has long been a primary mode of communication, and we depend on it for both personal and business use. However, email security has become a significant concern with increasing cyber threats. As a result, using DKIM has become increasingly [...]

By |2024-08-25T22:19:42+02:00March 16th, 2023|Categories: Cybersecurity Law, Electronic Communications Law, Email Law|
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Will your internet cookies give you indigestion?

Cookies are used throughout our internet browsing experience. They enable the personalisation of our internet browsing experience. Cookies are the feature that allows shopping carts to remember what we are thinking of buying as we move from one web page [...]

By |2022-12-14T08:59:15+02:00October 18th, 2019|Categories: Electronic Communications Law, POPI and Data Protection|Tags: |
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Email Encryption and POPIA – must you encrypt your emails?

Does complying with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) also mean that you must use email encryption when sending emails containing personal information? In other words, does sending unencrypted emails containing personal information potentially violate POPIA? The short answer is: [...]

By |2022-12-20T11:51:10+02:00April 4th, 2017|Categories: Email Law|Tags: , , , |
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When is your email private in South Africa?

The case of Smith and Partners in Sexual Health (Non-Profit) CCMA (WECT 13711-10) heard in the CCMA in October 2010, which we wrote about here, raises this interesting question? When can an email be considered the "private" property of the employee and [...]

By |2022-12-20T16:45:29+02:00October 19th, 2011|Categories: Email Law|Tags: |
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Hyper-linked email disclaimers coming to an end?

It is an all too familiar sight to see emails ended with a lengthy disclaimer, often in tiny text, and if the email thread is very long, it could be repeated multiple times making the thread incredibly (and unnecessarily) long. [...]

By |2022-12-15T08:59:46+02:00September 20th, 2010|Categories: Email Law|Tags: , |
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Characteristics of a compliant email management solution

If you want to determine whether an email management solution "complies" with the ECT Act, then these are the questions that you should be asking: Is it capable of storing records in a trustworthy manner? Does the product protect the [...]

By |2022-11-28T15:20:53+02:00November 16th, 2009|Categories: Email Law|Tags: , |
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Does the Law Accept Delivery via SMS?

SMS is "the one form of communication that many people are tethered to 24/7. Which helps explain why, at a time when in-boxes fill with hundreds of never-opened email messages from direct marketers, 97 percent of all SMS marketing messages [...]

By |2019-08-24T09:34:12+02:00October 28th, 2009|Categories: Electronic Communications Law|Tags: , , |
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Altech v ICASA | No leave to appeal

Press release from Altech: 31 October 2008 Altech announced today that it has been successful in opposing the Minister of Communications, Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, in her application for Leave to Appeal against the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) / [...]

By |2022-02-20T19:50:56+02:00October 31st, 2008|Categories: Electronic Communications Law|Tags: , , , |
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Opening absent employee email in South Africa

Can a company open an employee's email whilst he is away on holiday or out of office? It depends. In the course of business Section 6 of our monitoring law, the Regulation of Interception of Communications & Provision of Communication-Related [...]

By |2021-10-04T17:10:51+02:00October 24th, 2008|Categories: Email Law|Tags: , , |
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