The Information Security Group of Africa has partnered with various local and international agencies & organisations to help combat the massive increase in cybercrime. Our objective is to co-ordinate skills & resources across all sectors of South Africa & internationally in order to break the chain [...]
Posts Tagged ‘privacy’
November 11th, 2009 - 3:12 pm § in Compliance, Risk Management
SA blogger arrested
The blogger-sphere was buzzing this week with claims that the South African police were clamping down on people critical of the government and crime. This came after the arrest on Wednesday morning of Albert Oosthuizen who runs zasucks.com – a blog that has as its mission “to bring news [...]
New privacy law proposed for the UK would cost £2 billion to implement
The U.K. government said Monday it plans to push for a law requiring service providers such as ISPs to retain data about instant messages, e-mail and other electronic communications – every phone call, text message, e-mail and Web site visit will need to be stored for a year and made available[...]
August 19th, 2009 - 10:04 pm § in Compliance, Information Security
Privacy law reality now one step closer…
Cabinet has approved the Protection of Personal Information Bill to go before Parliament. The draft law has been nine years in the making and will have a profound impact on business, lawyers say. Yesterday, Cabinet spokesman Themba Maseko said the Bill was drafted by the South African Law Commission[...]
