Data protection in South Africa : the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 in light of recent international developments (2)

Abstract

It took South Africa forty years since the first enactment of international data privacy legislation to enact its own data privacy legislation in the form of the Protection of Personal Information Act (PPI), despite the fact that the South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) took the first steps towards enacting data privacy legislation in South Africa fifteen years ago.