
When a misdirected email becomes a POPIA enforcement case
The enforcement notice suggests that internal, accidental disclosures can still become reportable security compromises with formal regulatory consequences.

The enforcement notice suggests that internal, accidental disclosures can still become reportable security compromises with formal regulatory consequences.

The Information Regulator’s decision suggests companies may face closer scrutiny when they rely on commercial-confidentiality grounds to refuse access to records.

The Department of Basic Education has filed a review application, aiming to have the notice barring the publication of the matric results declared unconstitutional.

The regulator says its ‘leniency regarding direct marketing through unsolicited electronic communications is going to be a thing of the past’.