"The amendments provide multi-channel access for data subjects to object to processing their information, or request the correction or deletion of their personal information free of charge.
This can be done by hand, fax, post, email, SMS, WhatsApp, or any other convenient method for the data subject."
#POPIA #SouthAfrica #DataProtection #Privacy
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/cellular/592339-say-goodbye-to-spam-calls-in-south-africa-2.html
"The new regulations, effective from 17 April 2025, introduce requirements such as recording telephonic consent when a direct marketer first contacts a data subject."
#POPIA #SouthAfrica #DataProtection #Privacy
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/cellular/592339-say-goodbye-to-spam-calls-in-south-africa-2.html
#POPIA, I wonder if this applies to you too. "The GDPR stipulates that credit agencies must provide data subjects with information about how the values are calculated. Until now, it was unclear what specific information had to be provided. According to the ECJ ruling on Thursday, scoring procedures and their principles must be described in such a way that data subjects can understand which of their data was used in the automated decision-making process and how." https://www.heise.de/en/news/ECJ-Credit-rating-agencies-must-justify-decisions-on-request-10299294.html
Truecaller may face #POPIA probe by #SouthAfrica's #InformationRegulator https://techcentral.co.za/truecaller-popia-information-regulator/255990/
Here's a challenge for #SouthAfrica's info rights activists. Can Voda's cloud handling of these devices' browsing conform with #POPIA? https://mybroadband.co.za/news/industrynews/561093-vodacom-south-africa-delivers-on-un-pledge-to-drive-4g-migration-at-a-lower-device-cost-with-new-cloud-based-handset.html
It irks me for as much as America complains about China, China has actual data protection laws, whilst Americans keep having their most sensitive data leaked in breaches. Then Politicians in the USA get pissed off at China for wanting to protect their citizens.
Look China may not be perfect and has their own set of issues but this is one Area they are clearly ahead of the USA on.
Canada, EU, South Africa all have data rights too
#Politics #PIPL #PIPEDA #POPIA #GDPR #InfoSec #cybersecurity
There's only one problem: such tracking violates #POPIA - which exists for a good reason: to curb abusive surveillance. https://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/545829-licence-plate-scanning-camera-explosion-in-south-africa.html
@mattotcha Of course, this is flippant reductio ad absurdam; since unintentional onward transmission of information shared with a user *before* they opted in can happen once they do, proper consent is impossible and regulators should ban Recall outright. #InformationRegulator #POPIA #SouthAfrica
@EverMama8_ #SouthAfrica has the Protection of Personal Information Act (#POPIA) to prevent this kind of thing.
South African government department fined R5 million in terms of the POPI Act for its tardiness with fixing IT breaches
https://gadgeteer.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/jail-400x231.jpg The Department of Justice & Constitutional Development’s failure to buy antivirus software, as ordered by the information regulator, has earned it a R5m fine — the highest penalty yet imposed for noncompliance with the Protection […]
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South African government department fined R5 million in terms of the POPI Act for its tardiness with fixing IT breaches
The Department of Justice & Constitutional Development’s failure to buy antivirus software, as ordered by the information regulator, has earned it a R5m fine — the highest penalty yet imposed for noncompliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act ( ...continues
Information Regulator #SouthAfrica's teething problems https://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/487917-1400-complaints-and-not-a-single-fine-why-popias-promise-appears-to-fall-flat.html #POPIA
Regarding outcomes of PAIA requests & POPIA complaints.
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RT @InforegulatorSA
The Regulator will give an update on the findings of its high-profile investigations tomorrow. Follow the link👇 for more information
http://ow.ly/x8ia50NzRwS
#popia #paia
https://twitter.com/InforegulatorSA/status/1643253379433394178
Information Regulator’s #POPIA, #PAIA online portals now live https://techcentral.co.za/information-regulators-popia-paia-online-portals-now-live/214863/
Besides anything else, this is a prima facie contravention of #POPIA https://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadcasting/453366-major-sabc-tv-licence-security-flaw-profiles-can-be-changed-and-addresses-exposed.html
Hang on, G**gle bans call recording apps "in the interest of privacy" but keeps it on G**gle Phone? Plus, in #SouthAfrica, #RICA may permit it, but what about #POPIA? https://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/442002-google-banning-call-recording-apps-from-play-store.html
Inadequate protection of personal info is an offence under #POPIA.
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RT @nafisa1
‼️ Bigger than Experian. The hacker groups says it has 54 million personal records of South Africans including credit scores, banking details and ID numbers.
So weak were the IT systems that the password TransUnion used was the word “Password” 🤯 https://twitter.com/wendyknowler/status/1504729380643299369
https://twitter.com/nafisa1/status/1504739681241554944
#POPIA: Confessions of a convert https://www.groundup.org.za/article/popia-confessions-convert/
Where did you get my phone number? https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/where-did-you-get-my-telephone-number/ #POPIA
In 2006 or so govt. took a policy decision to go opensource, which was simply never implemented because all these freebies (& no doubt, backhanders) popped up. Now look. https://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/413086-microsoft-site-for-free-office-365-exposed-details-of-22000-south-africans.html #POPIA
