Munetsi v Madhuyu and Another involves the disclosure of personal information on social media without consent. The applicant sued the respondents to stop sharing his personal information online. He also requested a public apology and punitive costs. The court ordered [...]
The information regulator issued a new guidance note on the processing of personal information of a voter by political parties and independent candidates as well as highlighting how to combat misinformation and disinformation in terms of the provisions of the [...]
Find out whether your data processing agreements (DPAs) are compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). What is HIPAA and who needs to comply? HIPAA establishes standards to securely handle protected health information (PHI), such as medical [...]
Most organisations worldwide transfer personal data as part of their everyday operations. This is valid for Africa as well. If you are trying to expand into Africa, you need to be aware that each African country will have its own [...]
Africa is a fast-growing market and offers some excellent expansion opportunities. Many South African businesses want to grow by opening up new divisions or entities in neighbouring countries. Likewise, many international companies look to Africa as the next step in [...]
Max Schrems’ journey with Meta (previously Facebook) and the Irish Data Protection Commission highlights the care organisations must observe when they deal with the personal data of the international community. Although there is an 80% similarity in privacy laws across [...]
Arranging legal training for your organisation may seem like an uninspiring or even overwhelming task. There are online and in-person workshops, the potential for e-learning, and numerous programmes to join but which option is right for your organisation? We know [...]
Most data protection legislation, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), does not afford protection to the personal data of a legal person. South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) is quite unique in this regard, as POPIA affords [...]
A juristic or legal person is a non-human entity, such as a corporation, that the law recognises as having many (if not all) of the legal rights and duties of a human being. Data protection is the area of law [...]
The regulator published a guidance note on processing of personal information of children on 28 June 2021 to help responsible parties process the personal information of children lawfully. It mainly deals with an application for authorisation by the Regulator [...]
Recently, WhatsApp updated its privacy policy. The company communicated the policy to its users via an in-app notification. This notice prompted users either to accept or to reject the policy. Notably, the policy contained an ultimatum paraphrased as: “accept [...]
Personal information is essentially any information that identifies a person. But the position is a bit more complicated than that because different laws in South Africa define it to mean different things. In other words, personal information means different things [...]
