The lack of regulation in the public sector poses a genuine threat to privacy rights. The significance of appropriate regulation, with reference to governmen...

Where private actors like Facebook employ profiling practices, is there a distinguished line beyond which they cannot go? In addition, how does the notion of...

This three-part mini-series will consider the regulation of Direct Marketing under data protection law. Part 1 will consider the position in South Africa und...

In 2017, Ghana launched a nationwide electronic chip-based authentication known as the Ghana Card. The registration drive was initiated in April of 2019. In ...

On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom (UK) formally left the European Union (EU). The political, economic and social impact of this event are still to be de...

Information Officers are required under South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act of 2013 (“POPIA”) and Promotion of Access to Information Act of...

The Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) has introduced regulations to collect facial biometric information from mobile phone c...

Samuel Kobina Annim, the Ghanaian government statistician, declared at the inaugural meeting of the National Census Publicity, Education and Advocacy Committ...

It is encouraging to note that the South African Information Regulator has delivered a letter to South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, requesting the pro...

The Cyber Crime, Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill of 2019 was passed by Zimbabwean cabinet in October 2019. The Bill is currently being drafted for pu...

In November 2019 Kenyian President Kenyatta signed the Data Protection Act 2019 (the Act) into law. The law is the first of its kind in Kenya and brings the ...

According to the press release from the European Commission, personal data is “any information relating to an individual whether it relates to his or her pri...

Whilst the business impact of the GDPR will depend on the location of an entity, it’s processing activities and prior compliance framework, the preliminary b...

The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 679/2016 (GDPR) will be, as of 25 May 2018, the main data protection legal framework in European Union (EU).  The...

The Information Regulator has been established under Section 39 of POPIA and has jurisdiction throughout the country. It is independent and is subject only t...

Data protection in South Africa is governed primarily by the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013, enacted in November, 2013. The aims of the Act...

Entrepreneurs starting to think about setting up their company operations may have pondered over the implications of the new information privacy law known as...

Namibia has a Data Protection Bill which, proposes the establishment of a data protection authority and seeks to create provisions for the use, processing an...

Yes, Botswana has a data privacy law. Data privacy if protected in Section 9 of the Botswana Constitution. Moreover, the Data Protection Act, 2018 (“DPA”) 20...