{"id":1154,"date":"2019-01-20T09:33:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T07:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifttechlaw.com\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2019-12-17T12:33:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T10:33:12","slug":"popia-regulations-privacy-laws-are-tightening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifttechlaw.com\/popia-regulations-privacy-laws-are-tightening\/","title":{"rendered":"POPIA REGULATIONS: PRIVACY LAWS ARE TIGHTENING"},"content":{"rendered":"
January 2019 has already provided an important reminder of the need for stricter information privacy regulation. On the 17th<\/sup> of this month, the data privacy watch-dog Have I been Pwned<\/em> uncovered the infamous COLLECTION#1<\/em> \u2013 a collation of over 1 billion hacked email and password data points. Although a comprehensive data-audit of COLLECTION#1<\/em> is still in process, an estimated 700 million compromised accounts were hacked in 2019 alone. This begs the question, what are South African regulators doing to protect your personal information? When will the POPIA Regulations be finalised and are privacy laws tightening?<\/p>\n It is no secret that South Africa\u2019s Protection of Personal Information Act<\/em> (\u201cPOPIA\u201d) regulates the processing of personal information domestically. As legislation has increasingly evolved to tackle a cross-border challenge, POPIA\u2019s provisions are aligned to stringent international standards. POPIA is structured in two instruments, the POPI Act and POPIA Regulations. The latter providing supplementary details of what is required to ensure legal compliance. On 14 December 2018, POPIA\u2019s final version Regulations<\/em> were promulgated affecting the implementation of SA information privacy law in several respects.<\/p>\nInformation Privacy Regulations Finalised Recently<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Enforcement Date<\/strong><\/h4>\n