In Brewer v Otter.ai, the U.S District Court for the Northern District of California, Justin Brewer filed a class-action lawsuit against Otter.ai. Brewer alleges that Otter.ai's "Otter Notetaker" and "OtterPilot" tool deceptively record private conversations without proper consent and use [...]
There is a new Biden executive order on American sensitive personal data that protects American citizens from exploitation by countries of concern. It relates to sensitive personal data or information. It authorises the Attorney General to prevent the large-scale transfer [...]
SAPS granted surveillance device access for enhanced investigations, igniting privacy concerns. Justice Minister Ronald Lamola gazetted a five-year exemption from the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-related Information Act (RICA) in South Africa. This means that the [...]
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 [...]
Do you use CCTV monitoring? 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", [...]
RICA stands for the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication Related Information Act 70 of 2002 and finally came into effect on 30 September 2005. RICA is the piece of South African legislation that governs the interception or [...]
The monitoring of communications must be done lawfully. For example, employers often monitor employee communications (for example, email, websites visited and telephone calls made) in order to gather the evidence required to dismiss an employee fairly. Companies sometimes monitor [...]
Do you want to record a conversation without someone's consent? Do you wonder whether it's lawful to do so? While different jurisdictions will give you different answers, you might be surprised to find out that - in many cases - recording without consent is legal. This [...]
Company X receives a complaint that an employee sends out a lot of pornographic pictures which offend lots of other users. Will it infringe Mr Employee's right to privacy if it accesses the employees computer to investigate the complaint? Would [...]
There is direct link between the concepts of monitoring and privacy. The two need to be balanced and the right to privacy is not an absolute right and can be limited by invoking the general "limitation clause" in section 36 of [...]
