Protection Of Personal Information Act, POPIA

Module 1 : DL19 - Protection Of Personal Information Act, POPIA

DL 19: POPIA

The Protection of Personal Information Act, No 4 of 2013 (“POPIA”) will directly affect your business. Although the Act is not yet in operation – the Legislature has hinted that the Act will come into full swing in the near future and with it, the Act brings a wave of change.

This three hour session aims to simplify the Act to make it practically applicable to your business. We aim to provide you with a broad overview of what changes need to be made and suggest practical methods of compliance.

Module 1 Session 1: The Act

• Global compliance
• The Act
  • Expectation
  • Application
  • Purpose
  • The role players
• The definition
• The relevance

Module 1 Session 2: The 8 conditions

• Proccesing
• Rights of the data subject
• The 8 conditions of POPIA
  • Accountability
  • Limitations of processing
  • Purpose specification
  • Further processing limitations
  • Information quality
  • Openness
  • Security safeguards
  • Data subject participation

 Module 1 Session 3: The Basic Conditions of Employment Act

• Special personal information
• Transborder information flow
• The regulations
• Complaints to Regulator
• Offences, penalties and fines
• Implementation considerations