Your article of April 11 (Information regulator contacts Facebook over data breach) appears to represent that the Protection of Personal Information Act, SA’s data protection framework law, is in operation. This is not the case. Despite being on the statute books for several years, and the regulator being appointed and having a budget, the act has not been brought into operation. We have seen egregious data breaches in the past year, of which Facebook is only one. Second, and perhaps more importantly, SA lags behind in the race to provide a proper framework for the processing of personal data in the era of Facebook. The General Data Protection Regulation is a regulation by which the EU intends to strengthen and unify data laws for all within the EU and addresses the export of personal data outside the EU. It becomes enforceable from May 25. Many countries are upgrading their legislation in view of this, as it provides a gold standard by which all would hope to favourably compare. Th...
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