Who must appoint a DPO? What does the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) require regarding a Data Protection Officer (or DPO)? This is one of the questions that the GDPR, adopted by the European Parliament in 2016, has prompted many organisations to ask. Another [...]
GDPR vs POPIA. How do they compare? The key is to identify the differences and similarities between the GDPR and the POPI Act. For example, who needs to comply with them, do they both apply to the same data [...]
Biometric data is information collected from body measurements and calculations related to human characteristics using technologies such as facial recognition or fingerprint scanners. The purpose of this collection is surveillance. As biometrics have fast become more popular, countries like the [...]
Are you looking for a data protection officer job or an indication of what a data protection officer salary would be? The Data Protection Officer job (also known as a DPO job) has got the European Union buzzing at the moment. Who [...]
The European Parliament (or EU Parliament) finally adopted, enacted, or approved the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 14 April 2016 after four years of negotiations. The GDPR is the most important piece of personal data protection legislation in the world [...]
The Panama Papers leak has become one of the most widely covered data protection issues in the news. But the one question no one probably asked yet is: what connection is there between the Panama Papers and the law? What [...]
On the 6 October 2015 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) made the Safe Harbor ruling which declared the Safe Harbor Agreement invalid. The ECJ ruled that the European Commission’s trans-Atlantic data protection agreement that went into force in 2000 [...]
What is the GDPR? The General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR is a new data protection law Europe has enacted that will apply to the whole of the EU and many organisations in other parts of the world. The GDPR [...]
