Welcome to our monthly POPIA Horoscope! 🔮

This post offers you POPIA tips couched in wily wit. Simply navigate to your star sign and read our analysis. You can also use your organisation’s incorporation date to see under which sign it falls.

Legally speaking, we disclaim liability for you not having a sense of humour.

Aries: 21 Mar - 19 Apr

This year may seem to have started as you intended, you registered your information officer and you’ve successfully applied for prior authorisation. Well done! But what’s happened since, eh? Nothing. You haven’t done anything. But what if the regulator issues an enforcement notice? You’re stuck huh? Get out there and get something sorted like working through our resolving disputes module.

Taurus: 20 Apr - 20 May

You’re reading this hoping for some sort of guidance, aren’t you? This is your problem: you are a hesitant, indecisive wreck. It shouldn’t take fifteen minutes to decide which software to use to map your activities, just take the plunge. They all have their own pros and cons. Think about your organisation and decide what works best for you.

Gemini: 21 May - 21 Jun

Listening to bands that no one else has ever heard of doesn’t make you cutting-edge and cool, just rather pretentious in fact. Your band, just like your information security, aren’t ahead of its time. So it’s time to join us in the 21st century (aka the information age for the uninitiated🥴) and update your systems.

Cancer: 22 Jun - 22 Jul

You’re a cranky mess because you can’t sleep. Why? Your executives are giving you grief because they still can’t tell the difference between POPIA and Papaya 🫣. Get a grip. Work through our getting governance right module so a) you can brief your execs and b) you finally get some piece of mind. Good luck.

Leo: 23 Jul - 22 Aug

The world does not always want to know that you’re asking your customers for consent to process their personal information. BREAKING NEWS!! You can rely on more than just consent to process personal information😱😨. To help find the clarity you need, consult with the actual experts so that the advice you dispense, is in line with the law, not your thoughts.

Virgo: 23 Aug - 22 Sep

You ran a successful data protection compliance programme. Well done! 👏 But you still aren’t happy. You want more. Maybe you should get an audit going to sustain your compliance. You can read it while you wait for loadshedding to finish. Unless…you forgot to charge your laptop 🫠.

Libra: 23 Sep – 23 Oct

Ever thought of attending one of our webinars. It’s not like House of the Dragons or anything else that you might fancy, but at least you can learn more about data protection. We all know you were the one who likes to take Mondays off to watch your favourite episodes while claiming to be “sick” 🤒.

Scorpio: 24 Oct – 21 Nov

Is it a cybercrime, or is it a breach? You wouldn’t know cause you weren’t paying attention to our blogs on the website, or were you too busy stalking your ex to see that it’s a crime? Maybe have a look at our cybercrime insights and get some perspective.

Sagittarius: 22 Nov – 21 Dec

Hi there. You’ve told us that you’re a “recovering” perfectionist and that’s fine BUT your contracts are still full of legalese, and your customers don’t even know what they mean. They pay us to interpret your contracts. You should pay us to draft them in plain language. Maybe get on this before you call yourself a perfectionist again.

Capricorn: 22 Dec – 19 Jan

You spend a lot of time projecting your ideas into reality but do you ever succeed?

Do you know what you can project into your reality? Our training services cause your people don’t know what they’re doing and can’t tell their POPIA from their PA-I-A. Choose from our vast selection of training options, webinars, workshops, and programmes, and we will help you get it together.

Aquarius: 20 Jan – 18 Feb

Just like a parent who keeps telling their child not to run with scissors, your IT team has to baby you and warn you not to lose your computer while you go for your morning coffee☕️. Oops! You left it behind, and someone stole it. Hopefully, you paid enough attention to your incident response process and know how to report a breach. Otherwise, good luck explaining this to your information officer (aka your CEO) 🤐.

Pisces: 19 Feb – 20 Mar

Sometimes your relationships won’t always work out. Don’t cry for yourself; you’re not Argentina 🇦🇷.

You don’t want your relationships with your vendors who are your processors, to end up the same way. You need to manage your processor relationships properly and work things out through your DPA. No need to shed more tears 🤧.

This month’s POPIA Horoscope was brought to you by Jesse-Lee Wrensch and Lisa Emma-Iwuoha.