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The POPIA course is an engaging, illustrative, and interactive course. It is based on the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), a comprehensive privacy law that is mandatory for all businesses within the private and public sector that process personal information in South Africa. Using illustrative graphics, animations, and real-life examples, the course details the crucial elements of POPIA that businesses should be aware of in order to comply.
The Protection of Personal Information Act, No 4 of 2013 (“POPIA”) will directly affect your business. The Act brings a wave of change after the grace period for full implementation expired on 1 July 2021. POPIA in itself is very technical and comprises of eight condtions for lawfull processing of personal information. POPIA entrench the fundamentals of fairness, risk and compliance.
This course aims to simplify the Act to make it practically applicable to your business and demystify the duties of the Information Officer and concepts such as the impact assessment, compliance framework and much more. We aim to provide you with a broad overview of what changes need to be made and suggest practical methods of compliance.
Consequences of non-compliance with the POPI Act
Ignorance when it comes to the POPIA act could have devastating consequences for many organizations. Violators of the POPI Act could be fined up to R10 million or face 10 years imprisonment. Moreover, your business also runs the risk of damaging client relationships and overall business reputation, should you act recklessly with personal information.
After this course, learners will learn the following sections of the POPI Act:
The purpose of the Act,
The application and exclusion provisions,
The lawful processing of personal information and exemptions thereof
Sections relating to the Information Officer,
Sections relating to the Information Regulator,
Provisions regulating direct marketing by means of unsolicited electronic communications,
Enforcement, complaints, offenses, and penalties
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Individuals in various fields seeking to know and understand the POPI Act
Module 1
1.1 What is POPIA?
1.2 When will POPIA become effective?
1.3 What About information collected before POPIA?
1.4 Application of the POPIA Act
1.5 Definitions
1.6 Exclusions
1.7 Exclusion for journalistic, literary or artistic purposes
Module 2
2.1 Lawful processing of personal information
2.2 Rights of data subjects
2.3 The 8 Conditions for the lawful processing of personal information
Accountability
Processing limitation
Purpose specification
Further processing limitation
Information quality
Openness
Security Safeguards
Data subject participation
2.4 Processing of special personal information
2.5 Prohibition on processing personal information of children
2.6 Transborder information flow
Module 3
3.1 Exemption from conditions for processing of personal information
3.2 Unsolicited direct marketing
3.3 Supervision - The Information Regulator
Code of conduct
Enforcement, offences and penalties