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Data and privacy in the Middle East and Africa

Data and privacy in the Middle East and Africa

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Data and privacy in the Middle East and Africa

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- [Instructor] Our final stop will be Middle East and Africa where we will look at one country and that will be South Africa. The South African data protection laws have limited provisions that relate indirectly to data protection and only in certain instances. The breach of those provisions could lead to administrative or criminal sanctions or both. And any person convicted of an offense under the terms of the protection of personal information or POPI act is liable to a fine and/or imprisonment of up to 10 years. POPI applies to the processing of personal information entered in a record by or for a responsible party by making use of automated or non-automated means, provided that when the recorded personal information is processed by non-automated means it forms part of a filing system. POPI is applicable to the processing of all personal identifiable information entered in a record which includes any recorded information…

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