by Tenile Timmins | Feb 27, 2025 | CPA, Direct marketing, Opt-in, Opt-out registry, POPI, POPI Act, POPIA
Direct marketing is considered to be a legitimate business interest worldwide and is used by businesses to obtain new clients or customers. Direct marketing practices generally involve activities such as cold calling, automated telephone calls, e-mails and electronic...
by VDT Attorneys | Jun 13, 2023 | Criminal, Criminal Record, Employee Screening, POPI, Sectional Title
With the South African crime rate being of concern to all South Africans, many citizens choose to live in sectional title schemes where security is often given a high priority. But what if the threat lies within the walls of the scheme? For this reason, many body...
by VDT Attorneys | Sep 14, 2021 | Employee, Employment law, POPI, POPI Act, POPIA
Remote work has most certainly become an increasingly common phenomenon thanks largely also to the Covid-19 pandemic. Many businesses have been forced to enable staff to work remotely without much thought always to the concomitant security issues relating to such...
by VDT Attorneys | Jun 14, 2021 | Government, Information, Information and data protection, Municipality, POPI, POPI Act, POPIA
The Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (“POPIA”) has been enacted to give effect to the constitutional right to privacy as enshrined in section 14 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996. POPIA does this by putting measures in place to...
by VDT Attorneys | May 20, 2021 | Business, Commercial, Company, Compliance, Information, Information and data protection, information officer, PAIA, POPI, POPI Act, POPIA
As the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (“POPIA”) deadline of 1 July 2021 approaches rapidly, many organisations are starting to raise questions about the more intricate aspects of POPIA. An important aspect relates to the role and...
by VDT Attorneys | Jan 20, 2021 | Information and data protection, POPI, POPI Act, POPIA
Who is the Information Officer? In terms of South African law, the role of the Information Officer stems from the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA), which, at its core, aims to uphold the right to access information (Section 32) as enshrined in the...
