On 23 July 2013, the National Assembly considered the changes made to the Protection of Personal Information Bill (POPI) by the NCOP and it will formally accept them soon. The NCOP made a few changes, but they were largely technical in nature. For example, 2012 is changed to [...]
John will be talking for about an hour on the Protection of Personal Information Bill (POPI) for the Institute of Credit Management of South Africa. For more details see the calendar of events on their website. You can access the [...]
After many years of waiting, 10 drafts and countless hours of deliberation, the National Assembly finally passed POPI on 11 September. The road until now After the Bill was first introduced, almost a decade ago, it is nearing finality at [...]
On 7 November, the Technical Committee deliberated the clauses of working draft 5Â of POPI. They went through many clauses and discussed many issues, but here are some key points that stood out for me. There are two things that you [...]
There has been a lot of confusion (understandably) about the Protection of Information Bill (POI) and the Protection of Personal Information Bill (POPI), though that extra 'P' makes all the difference. First of all, they are different bills, dealing with [...]
The Institute for International Research (IIR) is holding a conference on the Protection of Personal Information Bill (PPI Bill) and how it will be affecting businesses. The conference will run from 17 March 2010 to the 18 March 2010 at [...]
Are you wondering what the implications of the Protection of Personal Information Bill are for you? On the one hand, virtually every organisation processes personal information - it is an important part of the business. Up until now, there have been very [...]
The days of attorneys working on different drafts of agreements or other legal documents when representing opposing clients, are long gone. Nowadays, Attorney A will prepare and send a first draft to Attorney B, who will take instructions from client [...]
This is an index of legal resources related to Privacy (especially regards the workplace) as at 6 September 2008. Electronic Communications - email, entrapment, internet, SMS, tapping Note: See "Code of Practice on the Protection of Workers' Personal Data" [ILO, [...]
We often get asked the same questions about privacy. Here are some of them. What is privacy? Privacy is a wide concept. It includes separate, but related concepts, such as bodily privacy (which involves the protection of people’s physical selves […]
