The Information Regulator has issued Dis-Chem with an enforcement notice for various contraventions of Popia.
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The Information Regulator has issued a R5-million administrative fine on the department of justice.
The Information Regulator has established online portals for public and private bodies to use to submit their Popia reports and to register their information officers.
The Protection of Personal Information Act came into full force last year, yet spam calls have not stopped plaguing South Africans. There is a way to fight back.
Standard Bank and Lightstone have disclosed a data breach and said that some property owners’ information in South Africa was accessed without permission.
The Western Cape Blood Service was hit by a cyberattack on Thursday morning, forcing the non-profit to resort to manual, offline processing while it restores its systems from backup.
No responsible party will be held liable for not registering by 30 June under the Protection of Personal Information Act, the Information Regulator said on Tuesday.
The Information Regulator is consulting lawyers about Facebook-owned WhatsApp’s new privacy policy and warned it is considering litigation.
Facebook has denied it intends sharing WhatsApp users’ contact lists with other Facebook properties when it introduces new terms and conditions soon that have caused an uproar among consumers.
Facebook cannot share any contact information it collects from WhatsApp users with its other properties without first obtaining authorisation from South Africa’s Information Regulator, the agency has said..