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Popi regulations: Implications for SA businesses

South Africa’s Information Regulator released draft Protection of Personal Information Act regulations on Friday September 8 2017. Popi (or Popia), provides for the protection of personal information in South Africa. Popia gives one year from the time it becomes effective, for organisations to become compliant. Despite this grace period, do not leave this to the last minute. It will cost your organisation much more in terms of stress, finances and the risk of poor implementation if it is not done timeously and properly.

FSACCI will organise a workshop about it next November, in partnership with our member PPM. In the meanwhile, we invite you to have a look at the paper written by Lucien Pierce, a partner at PPM Attorneys.