Cooking with a blowtorch and no smoke alarm is exciting, until it isn't. That's what using powerful AI without sufficient controls is like. Practical governance of next-gen AI is not red tape. It is how you keep up the heat [...]
DORA compliance for vendors is now a live requirement, and selling technology to European financial firms is therefore like constructing a new building in a crowded city: you must meet the code, welcome inspections, and prove the structure can take [...]
An AI policy template for organisations is different from a National AI policy. A National policy outlines how a country plans to govern AI to advance its national interests. An organisational AI policy explains how your organisation uses AI, integrates [...]
The final King V Code on corporate governance was published on 31 October 2025 by the Institute of Directors in Southern Africa (IoDSA). It is approximately 20 pages long and includes only the code (unlike previous versions, which also included [...]
The AI policy for public healthcare in the Western Cape (WCG) is in motion. The policy promotes the use of AI tools to address institutional capacity constraints and varying skill levels. Meaning that developers and deployers of AI-enabled healthcare tools [...]
The Lexing Network is expanding into Africa and is looking for new members for Lexing Africa. If you're a good fit, we'd love to hear from you. The Lexing Network is an international network of lawyers dedicated to data, digital [...]
If you're considering how to govern AI, why not govern AI like a human? AI is not like traditional tools. Unlike a hammer or a spreadsheet, AI tools exhibit evolving behaviour by learning and adapting as they interact with people [...]
The Information Regulator issued an enforcement notice against the Department of Basic Education (DBE) on the issue of consent under POPIA on 6 November 2024. The DBE has a long-standing practice of publishing matric results in newspapers, but this practice […]
Your company almost certainly has an email disclaimer. Often, it is a huge block of text that appears at the bottom of an email, which nobody reads and just clutters up everyone’s inbox. At other times, it is incorporated by [...]
A U.S. district judge in the Anthropic AI copyright settlement clarifies the concept of fair use when it comes to AI training. In essence, AI developers may train AI on books that they lawfully acquire. The infringing act, however, is [...]
AI literacy is essential to ensure people are competent and knowledgeable about AI. With some sections of the EU AI Act having taken effect on 2 February 2025, businesses and organisations should comply with a new requirement: ensuring the AI [...]
The Information Regulator (Regulator) is investigating Truecaller. Data subjects complained about how, among other things, Truecaller processes personal information. There is currently no enforcement notice against Truecaller, but the investigation signals a shift. Data subjects in South Africa are actively […]
