Meet compliance requirements to protect personal information in South Africa
The mandate of South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA, formerly known as PoPI) is to regulate the processing of personal information. With this Act, data breaches need to be reported by law.
Organisations need to develop a clear data protection plan to build trust with customers, drive business growth, avoid costly penalties.
The Act came in to force on 2020年7月1日 with a 1 year grace period within which to ensure compliance.
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Personal information collected and retained by 组织 is also subject to deletion.
It can be difficult to guarantee all personal data is deleted if it has been exported to files outside the central database.
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Under POPIA, any personal data obtained by an organisation can be subject to access requests.
Anyone has the right to request if a company holds personally identifiable information (PII) on them, 数据是什么, the reason for collection, how long the data will be held for.
在很多情况下, private individuals have the right to request that personal data be deleted from systems in its entirety.
申慱sunbet版APP 机器学习 technologies effectively identify and locate hard-to-find PII in data repositories that include on-premise file shares and popular cloud repositories to take the guesswork out of data subject access requests.
Read the blog post by 申慱sunbet版APP contributor Sean Glansbeek for a deeper dive into the importance of POPIA, what it means for 你的 business, some tips for POPIA compliance best practices.
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