Small businesses and POPI: not crying wolf this time
Category Industry News
POPI (the Protection of Personal Information Act) will provide welcome protection for our personal information – our names, ID numbers, addresses, medical histories and so on.
But the other side of the coin is that it will expose small businesses in particular to a whole new raft of onerous obligations and risks.
The problem is that there have been so many false alarms as to when POPI’s compliance provisions will actually commence, that many of us have lost sight of just how heavy a burden it will place on our businesses.
But now the process is strongly underway again, and this time it’s not a case of “crying wolf”. So here is what you need to know for now.
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Author: Bisset Boehmke McBlain Attorneys
