South African Information Regulator

Lucien Pierce, Attorney at PPM Attorneys joins us in this episode of Tech Legal Matters. Lucien walks us through POPIA in full, providing in-depth insights on how compliance assessments are undertaken.

Eight days before the full commencement of the Protection of Personal Information Act, the Information Regulator (South Africa) kicked the can down the road even further citing technical glitches in its IT systems that resulted in the suspension of the portal registrations.

WhatsApp announces video and voice calls on its desktop app as it is being questioned by South African policymakers around its Privacy Policy.

To get to the bottom of the events leading up to the public disclosure of the Experian South Africa data breach, iAfrikan spoke to the Office of the Information Regulator of South Africa.

You can also listen to the podcast on: Google Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. You’ll often hear it being mentioned that South Africa has one of the best constitutions in the world. We could even go further and argue that this excellence in legal matters also extends into the country’

Garmin notified its South African customers that their data personal data was compromised as a result of an alleged hacking incident. Apparently around 6,700 customers' personal data and credit card details were stolen as a result.

Advocate Pansy Tlakula has been elected to serve on the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). She will still continue to work as the chairperson of the Information Regulator (South Africa).