{"id":25101,"date":"2021-06-08T14:16:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T12:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/?p=25101"},"modified":"2021-07-08T13:48:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T11:48:29","slug":"thought-of-the-week-popia-is-here-to-stay-and-immediate-action-is-crucial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/thought-of-the-week-popia-is-here-to-stay-and-immediate-action-is-crucial\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought of the Week | POPIA is here to stay. And immediate action is crucial."},"content":{"rendered":"

For many businesses, complying with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) has become that “monster under the bed”, almost paralysing them from implementing the necessary.<\/p>\n

POPIA \u00a0is less of a monster than current trends make it out to be. In most basic terms, it requires businesses and organisations to put their best efforts in place, or at the very least to be working towards it, to ensure that the data they collect of clients, is dealt with in a way that secures the privacy thereof, within the requirements of the relevant business transaction.<\/p>\n

POPIA does indeed make provision for fines of up to R10 million and a jail sentence of up to 10 years, depending on the seriousness of the breach; but POPIA’s aim is not to penalize but\u00a0rather to convince businesses to establish good business governance principles with regards to the personal information that they\u00a0deal with. Take the prompt from Barack Obama\u2019s words: \u201cThe best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Contact Maryna Botha at\u00a0marynab@stbb.co.za<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>for effective assistance with POPIA requirements. Or, if you want to find out more about complying with POPIA, read the posts referred to in this STBB Thought of the Week.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For many businesses, complying with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) has become that “monster under the bed”, almost paralysing them from implementing the necessary. POPIA \u00a0is less of a monster than current trends make it out to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":24471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-thought-of-the-week"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThought of the Week | POPIA is here to stay. 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