{"id":25736,"date":"2021-07-01T14:06:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/?p=25736"},"modified":"2021-07-01T19:07:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T17:07:50","slug":"property-law-update-issue-15-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/property-law-update-issue-15-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Property Law Update | POPIA: Did it happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes and no.<\/p>\n<p>Many businesses labour under an incorrect impression that midnight, 30 June 2021, something would happen to them if they had not already uploaded a library of often unreadable policies onto their websites and sent mails to everyone they have ever dealt with asking them to consent to a variety of things. 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