How can the right to privacy in Article 12 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights be protected and enforced in countries that...

There is no denying the relevance of data protection and privacy in the world today. It is a field that is receiving unprecedented...

The Department of Information and Communications Technology announced this week that it is currently deliberating on the new Broadcasting...

EndCode has drafted a Privacy Notice (“Notice”) intended to assist South African organisations in responsibly and lawfully processing..

In an attempt to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, governments are using citizens’ personal data by collecting health data and contact...

On 2 April 2020, the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs released further amendments to the Disaster Management...

The Information Regulator has acknowledged the need to track and trace infected persons and potentially infected persons to effectively...

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

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

In Part 1 of this three-part mini series, I considered the regulation of Direct Marketing in South Africa under the Protection of...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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