Tag: popi

Will PoPI Lead to More Extortion?

Will PoPI Lead to More Extortion?

In November, 2013, the President enacted PoPI and since that time there have been continual questions as to when all of the process will in effect. While some of the portions of the Act came into effect in 2014, there has been a number of substantial revisions that require future dates for such lawful processing as the protection of personal information. With so much still up in the air there
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Human Error And Data Breaches

In a time known for cyber hackers, a majority of suspicion for any security breach has been to look to external forces, often on an international level. Cybercrime in South Africa has been at such a scale, that the government instituted the Popi Act (Protection of Personal Information). However, based on a new study, it appears that a majority of the system data breaches originate on the ‘human error’ level.
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