information notices

Enforcement Notice from the Information Regulator: what now?

The Information Regulator may send you a POPIA enforcement notice after investigating you and finding that you have contravened POPIA by failing to lawfully process personal information. In comparison, the Information Regulator may send you an infringement notice if it [...]

Swartkops Sea Salt enforcement action | Review of PAIA enforcement notice

The Swartkops Sea Salt enforcement action regarding PAIA is now before the courts after Swartkops took the regulator’s enforcement notice on review. This action is a reminder that refusing a PAIA request can lead to regulatory enforcement and costly litigation. […]

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Trends in data protection litigation around the world

Since 2020, legal practitioners in the UK predicted that data protection litigation would increase in the coming years. Data protection litigation in the EU was quite widespread as data subjects began to lodge claims directly with civil courts (as opposed [...]