by Lezaan van Jaarsveld | 25 Jun, 2026 | Data Privacy, Insights
By Ali Sonday | Associate Director Residential estates collect personal information every day at the gate. Visitor names, vehicle details, access times, ID-linked information, CCTV footage, resident profiles and contractor records are often gathered as part of...
by Lezaan van Jaarsveld | 19 Jun, 2026 | Data Privacy, Insights
By Jodi Poswelletski | Director For insurers, the question is no longer whether a data incident is possible. The more useful question is whether the organisation knows what it will do when personal information may already be at risk. This is the premise behind “data...
by Lezaan van Jaarsveld | 7 May, 2026 | Data Privacy
The Information Regulator’s eServices portal opened on 1 May 2026 and will close at 23:59 on 30 June 2026 for the 2025/26 PAIA reporting period. Every public and private body must file its annual report on access-to-information requests for the year ended 31 March...
by Lezaan van Jaarsveld | 4 Feb, 2026 | Data Privacy, Employment Law, Insights
By Aabeed Abdullatief | Director Government moves to extend labour protections to SA’s creative performers A recent Government Gazette notice suggests a potentially major shift for South Africa’s creative economy. The Minister of Employment and Labour has signalled an...
by Lezaan van Jaarsveld | 17 Jul, 2025 | Commercial Litigation, Competition Law, Data Privacy, Employment Law, Insights
By Jodi Poswelletski | Director Imagine discovering that an ex-employee has copied your client database and is already trading on it. In minutes they can encrypt, delete or dump that data offshore. Under POPIA your company now faces fines of up to R10 million,...
