You can read a summary of POPIA, attend a POPI workshop, read POPIA judgments and cases, get a POPIA compliance framework or join a Data Protection Programme and working through the POPIA lens to help you take the necessary action to comply.

Sep 10, 2019 · To promote the protection of personal information processed by public and private bodies; to introduce certain conditions so as to establish minimum requirements for the …

Jul 11, 2019 · The purpose of this Act is to — give effect to the constitutional right to privacy, by safeguarding personal information when processed by a responsible party, subject to justifiable limitations that are aimed at— balancing the right to privacy against other rights, particularly the right of access to information; and

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‘‘Terrorist and related activities’’, for purposes of subsection (1) (c), means those activities referred to in section 4 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy against Terrorist and Related Activities Act, 2004 (Act No. 33 of 2004).

Jul 12, 2019 · This Act applies to the processing of personal information— entered in a record by or for a responsible party by making use of automated or non-automated means: Provided that when the recorded personal information is processed by non-automated means, it forms part of a filing system or is intended to form part thereof; and

Sep 5, 2019 · The prohibition on processing personal information, as referred to in section 26, does not apply if the— processing is carried out with the consent of a data subject referred to in section 26; processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of a right or obligation in law; processing is necessary to comply with … Continue reading Section 27 General authorisation ...

Sep 20, 2019 · Any person may submit a complaint to the Regulator in the prescribed manner and form alleging interference with the protection of the personal information of a data subject. A responsible party or data subject may, in terms of section 63(3), submit a complaint to the Regulator in the prescribed manner and form if he, she …

Sep 1, 2019 · A data subject or, at the request of the data subject, the Regulator, may institute a civil action for damages in a court having jurisdiction against a responsible party for breach of any provision of this Act as referred to in section 73, whether or not there is intent or negligence on the part of the responsible party.

To promote the protection of personal information processed by public and private bodies; to introduce certain conditions so as to establish minimum requirements for the processing of personal information; to provide for the establishment of an Information Regulator to exercise certain powers and to perform certain duties and functions in terms ...