The POPIA Amendment Regulations commenced with immediate effect on 17 April 2025. These amended regulations cover new proposed rules of procedure, administrative fines, and expand the data subject's rights to their personal information. In this post, we summarise the regulations, [...]
On Friday, 6 October, I listened in on an interesting interview with Adv Pansy Tlakula. She shared some interesting insights about the regulator's work, the status of certain enforcements and some projects they are working on. I decided to share [...]
On 13 October 2021, the information regulator invited comments on draft regulations that will amend the POPIA regulations, 2018. The draft regulations mainly cover new proposed rules of procedure, administrative fines, and other proposed amendments to the POPIA regulations. [...]
The Information Regulator in South Africa published the first POPI regulations on 14 December 2018 (or POPIA regulations or POPI Act Regulations as some people call them). The regulations say that "These Regulations shall be called the Regulations relating [...]
