In Financial Mail (Pty) Ltd v Sage Holdings Ltd, the Court extended personality rights to a corporation in 1993. This judgment was a significant development in our law and underpins POPIA's requirement that responsible parties protect the personal information of [...]
In Dutch Reformed Church Vergesig v Sooknunan, the Court ordered Sooknunan, the owner and publisher of a Facebook page, to remove certain posts as they were unlawful in content and impact. The Court held that people posting the Church members' […]
Nowadays a customer email database is a very important asset to a business. Why has it become so popular? Simply because emails are cheap and easy to distribute. Direct marketers still phone people, but reaching people through email has become [...]
In Bernstein v Bester, the court gave an interpretation of the constitutional right to privacy. The court held that business activities are public affairs that need public scrutiny. This means that the right to privacy applies in the personal or [...]
