South Africa: Data Protection

The Internet of Things is revolutionising data collection and analysis, enabling organisations to harness real-time information streams for automated decision-making through AI systems. However, this technological convergence presents complex legal challenges around data privacy, transparency and accountability that organisations must carefully navigate.

Modern software solutions rarely operate independently. Behind a single banking platform, SaaS product or mobile application sits a network of third-party integrations, cloud providers and external...

This comprehensive legal update covers recent developments across South African law, from pharmaceutical naming regulations and copyright platform liability to VAT amendments affecting insurance and digital services. The collection explores emerging challenges in intellectual property protection, cryptocurrency regulation, and data brokering, while examining how AI and digital transformation are reshaping traditional legal frameworks.

Technology vendors rarely ask direct permission to train their models using your data. Instead, that permission is often hidden in ordinary-looking clauses found in SaaS and other agreements.

With the Information Regulator increasingly requesting copies of Personal Information Impact Assessments ("PIIAs") from organisations as part of its compliance and enforcement activities, many organisations...

If you have accessed any social media platform recently, you will have likely been met with a wave of caricatures generated by artificial intelligence ("AI") tools.

Often in business, a party commences discussions with a counterparty including discussions which may involve sensitive business ideas, only to realise that a Non-Disclosure Agreement...

The proliferation of intelligent technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) has created opportunities for players within the consumer sector to harness the capabilities of new tools to enhance the customer experience...

In De Jager v Netcare Limited (Case No. 42041/16) heard in the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division, Mr de Jager raised concerns about privacy violations following the collection...