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EFSA Fireside Chat – POPI
Last week, our resident data specialist Thomas Reisenberger sat down for a Fireside Chat with E-Commerce Forum South Africa (Alastair Tempest and Rieka van Wyk) and Insaka E-Commerce Academy (Warrick
Read moreSo Now You Know: Protection Of Personal Information Act and its application to your operations
By the end of June 2021, your operations must be totally POPI compliant... and this is not a simple tick-box exercise! If you are a bit unsure as to what
Read moreSA interception and cryptography laws tell WhatsApp Privacy changes to “hold my beer”
Introduction If you think Whatsapp™’s recent changes to their privacy policy are scary, wait until you remember that SA has some of the most unfettered data-interception laws in the world,
Read moreSouth Africa’s POPIA is heralding the new data epoch in SA: Are you ready?
The eventual heralding of POPIA With President Ramaphosa's announcement that a large swath of substantive provisions from the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (“POPIA”) will commence from 1
Read moreWhat Do I Need To Know About Data Protection Online?
Revised data laws in South Africa have recently been put in place to protect you from harm by protecting your personal information and privacy online. You might think the risks
Read moreData Compliance for Schools in South Africa
Personal Data Compliance in Schools All schools in South Africa process a large amount of “personal identifiable information” (“PI”). This PI data includes any sort information which could identify a
Read moreGDP…AARRGHHHH!
What's the hype around GDPR? Many South African businesses have now heard of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI), and some have begun updating their policies to prepare for
Read moreLegal/Shop Lesson: Workshopping Online Consumer and User Protection [JOBURG]
Legalese Solutions has partnered with OPEN Sandton to bring you another LegalShop Lesson: Workshopping Online Consumer and User Protection. Our regulations and compliance expert Thomas Reisenberger has created this workshop
Read moreWhy Website Policies Should Be More Than Just a Link
If you own or operate a website, it's likely you don't think much about the terms and conditions hyperlink lurking at the bottom of your website - an essential gateway
Read moreEvent | Legal/Hub Lesson 2
Our compliance and regulations expert Thomas Reisenberger continues his series of Legal/Hub lessons hosted at JoziHub with a workshop entitled 'Consumer Protection Online'. Thomas will delve a layer deeper in the
Read morePOPI’s Bigger, Foreign Brother
Our compliance and regulation expert Thomas Reisenberger contributed to Amplifier with an article outlining the need for local businesses operating in the international sphere to comply not only with the looming
Read moreForeign Data Laws
Our compliance and regulation expert Thomas Reisenberger contributed to BusinessBrief with an article outlining the need for local businesses operating in the international sphere to comply not only with the
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