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GDPR and POPI – MUST SOUTH AFRICANS COMPLY?

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect on 25 May 2018 – as heralded by the million-or-so “We’ve changed our Privacy Policy” messages we all received at the time and continue to do so. Whilst organisations across the EU scrambled then and still struggle today to get their affairs in order, in South Africa we received emails telling us that we must become GDPR compliant by the deadline. But was and is this true for South Africa? With POPI now partially in law, what should South African businesses be doing?

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South Africa’s new data privacy law and what it means for you

South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act, POPIA is now law. This is good news for South African citizens and residents as the aim of the legislation is to protect their personally identifiable information. But what will POPIA compliance mean for companies?

What does the new law mean for South African organisations?

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