Amanda Manyame Interview with Ridwan Oloyede How can the right to privacy in Article 12 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights be protected and enforced in countries that...
EndCode Data Protection and Privacy: A Child's Rights There is no denying the relevance of data protection and privacy in the world today. It is a field that is receiving unprecedented...
Pria Chetty South Africa's Data Protection Law takes effect on 1 July 2020 EndCode's Pria Chetty provides an overview of the recent press release by the Presidency of the Republic of South Africa, announcing...
Yoland Swales Seychelles Drafting New Broadcasting and Telecommunications Act The Department of Information and Communications Technology announced this week that it is currently deliberating on the new Broadcasting...
Alon Alkalay EndCode Publishes A COVID-19 Privacy Notice For South African Organisations EndCode has drafted a Privacy Notice (“Notice”) intended to assist South African organisations in responsibly and lawfully processing..
Amanda Manyame Data Protection During a Pandemic – African DPAs Respond In an attempt to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, governments are using citizens’ personal data by collecting health data and contact...
Pria Chetty South Africa Using Surveillance To Fight COVID-19 On 2 April 2020, the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs released further amendments to the Disaster Management...
Alon Alkalay All You Need To Know About COVID-19 Track And Trace Rules The Information Regulator has acknowledged the need to track and trace infected persons and potentially infected persons to effectively...
ethanmudavanhu Should Leaving a Digital Footprint Worry You? Part 2 The lack of regulation in the public sector poses a genuine threat to privacy rights. The significance of appropriate regulation, with...
ethanmudavanhu Should Leaving A Digital Footprint Worry You? Where private actors like Facebook employ profiling practices, is there a distinguished line beyond which they cannot go? In addition,...
Alon Alkalay Direct Marketing Under Data Protection Law - Part 2 (EU) In Part 1 of this three-part mini series, I considered the regulation of Direct Marketing in South Africa under the Protection of...
Alon Alkalay Direct Marketing Under South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act - Part 1 This three-part mini-series will consider the regulation of Direct Marketing under data protection law. Part 1 will consider the position...
ethanmudavanhu 2020 Election: Is Ghana’s National Digital Identification Voter Suppression? In 2017, Ghana launched a nationwide electronic chip-based authentication known as the Ghana Card. The registration drive was initiated...
Pria Chetty The Impact of Brexit on the GDPR: A South African Perspective On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom (UK) formally left the European Union (EU). The political, economic and social impact of this...
Alon Alkalay What Is The Difference Between An Information Officer And A Data Protection Officer? Information Officers are required under South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act of 2013 (“POPIA”) and Promotion of Access...
Pria Chetty Zambia To Capture Mobile Users’ Biometrics The Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) has introduced regulations to collect facial biometric information...
Pria Chetty Ghana Set For A Digital Census Samuel Kobina Annim, the Ghanaian government statistician, declared at the inaugural meeting of the National Census Publicity, Education...
Alon Alkalay Information Regulator Nudges President to Proclaim The Remainder of the POPIA It is encouraging to note that the South African Information Regulator has delivered a letter to South Africa's President Cyril...
Pria Chetty Cybercrime and Data Protection Developments in Zimbabwe The Cyber Crime, Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill of 2019 was passed by Zimbabwean cabinet in October 2019. The Bill is currently...
Pria Chetty Does Kenya have a Data Protection Law? 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...