Parliament has invited the public to nominate four people for the President to appoint as members of the information regulator. Do you want to nominate someone? Do you know anyone who might want to nominate someone? Finding the right members [...]
1 July 2021 was the POPIA deadline in South Africa. After the POPIA commencement date or effective date (which was 1 July 2020) there was a 12-month grace period - so the POPIA deadline was at the end of [...]
How come I am still getting emails? We’re getting asked this question a lot. And it’s a good one. There is much misinformation out there about if and how you can communicate with existing and potential clients. So it is [...]
1 July 2021 is a milestone in South Africa and you have an important role to play into the future. For the protection of personal information, we move out of the grace period and into a world where the [...]
The information regulator has published its annual performance plan for 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022. It has also presented them in different formats to different audiences. For example, the regulator held a readiness stakeholder engagement on 15 June [...]
Now there is a good question. Many people ask us how much does data protection compliance (or more specifically GDPR compliance or POPIA compliance) cost. I'm afraid there is no simple answer but I can give you some guidance to [...]
The information regulator has published a guidance note on information officers and deputy information officers to provide guidance, procedures and forms to enable responsible parties to do various things required by law. To save you time, we have summarised [...]
The POPI commencement date (or POPI effective date) is 1 July 2020. The President has proclaimed 1 July 2020 to be the date. It is important because a grace period of one year starts running from the commencement date [...]
Many organisations are trying to implement POPIA. They're trying to assess the impact of POPIA on their organisation and then analyse the gap. This makes a lot of sense because you need to understand the impact and the gaps before [...]
Parliament has stressed that it wants South Africa's data protection law called the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) to commence urgently. We still don't have any specific commencement date or deadline but Parliament said "we need specific timeframes". We [...]
There are media reports that the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI Act or POPIA) commenced today 1 April 2020. This is incorrect. POPIA has not commenced. The President has not proclaimed the date in the Government Gazette. The Information [...]
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 [...]
