The course content addresses the following topics:
- Data privacy in international perspective: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union
- Introduction to the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA)
- Lawful processing conditions in the POPIA
- Cross-border transfer of data: the Information Regulator and regulatory challenges
- The constitutional right of access to information
- Introduction to the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA)
- Application of PAIA
- Distinction between public and private bodies
- Threshold for access to records held by private bodies
- PAIA: grounds of refusal and the public interest override
- Common law of privacy
- Introduction to Regulation of Interception of Communications Act (RICA)
- Amabhungane case