Information law or data law is a specialist field of legal practice looking at all laws that regulate specifically information or data.
The Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture recommends compulsory disclosures about land ownership. A declaration process similar to FICA would be used. What disclosures must owners make now? The Deeds Registry Act says individual owners must identify themselves [...]
The Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture spotlights land belonging to churches, mining houses and urban landlords for distribution for reform. It urges them to donate this land to the landless. Internal conflict over whether to donate is [...]
The Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture made their final report to the President public on 28 July. It says immediate action is necessary for a Land Records Bill. This will be the main driver of South African land [...]
The Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform published the Deeds Registries Amendment Bill on the 9th of March earlier this year. This marked a thirty-day period where the public commented on the changes the Bill proposes to the Deeds [...]
It is often difficult to produce originals of documents. Sometimes people do not even know what an "original" really is - even those people who ask for it. We generate electronic originals of many documents that companies are required to publish. People often ask [...]
Databases and the data in them have become very valuable assets. People often ask, what is the law relating to data ownership? What is a database? How do you define a database in an agreement? How does the law [...]
It looks like the Protection of Information Bill (POIB) is going to be renamed the Protection of State Information Bill. People will probably call it POSIB or POSI. This makes a lot of sense and will help to avoid confusion. [...]
In March 2004 agreement was reached by the members of Technical Committee 46 at Standards South Africa (SANS – previously the South African Bureau of Standards) to adopt SANS 15489 as the first South African standard relating to the management of [...]
There are different reasons why organisations have to consider destroying records. Every time you do so, does not necessarily mean that you are breaking the law. The reasons include the following: Routine records destruction programs. Manual cleaning of the files: [...]
A common issue nowadays is who owns the copyright in content posted to website posts or blogs - content in the form of text, visual images or the like, where a website allows this sort of participation by users. We [...]
There is currently no definition of "record" that is universally used by all organisations. The simple reason for this is that definitions serve the community that they are created by and each community has different needs. What is a record? [...]
