News•31 March 2021•2 min readPOPI Act in Effect 1st JulyJust a quick reminder that the provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) go into effect on the 1st July. Technically, it came into effect last year, but it…Read more→
News•29 January 2021•2 min readHuge Privacy Fines for Google & AmazonIn the wake of the collapse of the EU-US Privacy Shield Agreement , France's privacy watchdog CNIL (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés) announced last month…Read more→
Online Marketing•27 January 2021•2 min readWhatsApp - Facebook Data SharingA poorly explained and understood announcement by Facebook recently has led to unprecedented growth in the user bases of both Signal and Telegram, rivals to the Facebook-owned…Read more→
News•30 September 2020•2 min readFacebook EU Operations in DoubtAs we all know, online privacy, the security of user data, and the use which that data is put to have become significant issues at this stage of the evolution of our digital…Read more→
News•31 January 2020•1 min readPOPI Adoption Expected SoonAlthough parts of the POPI (Protection Of Personal Information) Act have technically been in force for some time already, the remaining (and most important) provisions have not…Read more→
News•29 November 2019•2 min readLeaked Facebook Emails Reveal Poor Data PracticesAccording to internal messages leaked from Facebook earlier this month, top-level employees strategised about how they could leverage the vast quantity of user data Facebook…Read more→
Google•31 July 2019•2 min readGoogle Terminates Controversial Chinese ProjectAt a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this month, Karan Bhatia, Google's VP of Public Policy, admitted that the company's controversial plan to re-launch its search…Read more→
News•29 April 2019•2 min readFacebook Facing Possible 5 Billion Dollar FineAfter the relatively recent Cambridge Analytica scandal which saw Facebook user data being harvested and used for political campaign purposes, the Federal Trade Commission in the…Read more→
Social Media•30 January 2019•2 min readThe Facebook Anti-Suicide AlgorithmFollowing on from recent scandals surrounding the live-streaming of suicides on Facebook, the company last year launched an ambitious project to use artificial intelligence to…Read more→
News•26 April 2018•1 min readAre You Ready for the POPI Act?The Protection Of Personal Information Act (No 4 of 2013) has been hovering in the background for quite some time already. Its intention is to bring the practices governing data…Read more→
