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.

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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Altech v ICASA | VANS self provision

In the matter of Altech Autopage Cellular (Pty) Ltd v The Chairperson of the Council of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa & Others ("the Altech Case") the Transvaal Provincial Division of the High Court of South Africa appears [...]

By |2021-07-22T09:58:56+02:00September 1st, 2008|Categories: Electronic Communications Law|Tags: , , |
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Email Archiving Best Practices

Email archiving best practices  in 2007 include: SANS 15489 (the South African Records Management Standard):  This standard on recordkeeping provides guidance on "[t]he standardization of records management policies and procedures," and is designed to ensure "that appropriate attention and protection [...]

By |2019-08-24T11:55:31+02:00September 30th, 2007|Categories: Email Law|Tags: , , |
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Proper Email Management is Important

Email has become the lifeblood of most companies. Consequently, company emails now contain a great deal of sensitive information that was once only stored on paper. There is a difference between email USAGE and email MANAGEMENT. Companies can be exposed [...]

By |2026-10-08T13:59:56+02:00September 22nd, 2007|Categories: Email Law|Tags: |
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Guide to the Electronic Communications Act 30 of 2006

The Electronic Communications Act 36 of 2005 (ECA) came into force on 19 July 2006 to regulate electronic communications in South Africa. The effect of the ECA is that the 1996 Telecommunications Act and the majority of the 1999 Broadcasting Act [...]

By |2019-06-26T11:08:54+02:00August 21st, 2006|Categories: Electronic Communications Law|Tags: , , |
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