No jokes, your right to privacy may be enshrined on April 1

With the long awaited Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act likely to come into effect on April 1 2020, Ridwaan Boda, director of technology, media and telecommunications at law firm ENSafrica, explains what it could mean for business and consumers.

We’ve been talking about POPI for a decade now, is it really happening this year? 

The information regulator has gone on record publicly to state that she has asked the president to ensure that POPI is put into effect from April 1...