Privacy rights of human research participants in South Africa must be taken seriously

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Staunton, Ciara
Adams, Rachel
Botes, M.
Dove, Edward S.
Horn, Lyn
Labuschaigne, Melodie
Loots, Glaudina
Mahomed, Safia
Olckers, Antonel
Pepper, Michael Sean

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Health and Medical Publishing Group

Abstract

The Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) was enacted by the South African (SA) parliament in 2013 after a long process of public consultation. To allow all sectors of SA society sufficient time to prepare to be compliant with POPIA, the SA government deferred the entering into force of the substantive provisions of POPIA for several years. Throughout this hiatus period, POPIA was widely publicised in the SA media, as is evident from any internet search.

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Parliament, Public consultation, South Africa (SA), Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA), Privacy rights, Human research participants

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Staunton, C., Adams, R., Botes, M. et al. 2020, 'Privacy rights of human research participants in South Africa must be taken seriously', South African Medical Journal, vol. 110, no. 3, pp. 175-176.