Countries with Data Privacy Laws – By Year 1973-2019

Greenleaf, Graham

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3386510

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“…There has been a global increase in the number of legislations aimed at protecting personal information (Botha et al, 2017). Between 1973 and 2017, new data privacy laws have been enacted at a rate of 2.7 new countries annually; resulting in the enactment of more than 120 laws worldwide (Greenleaf, 2017).…”

Section: Overview Of Privacy Legislationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Significant work still needs to be done in order to combat information privacy violations in African countries (Borena et al, 2015). Figure 1 shows the African countries that have privacy legislation, from a study conducted by Greenleaf (2017). Twenty out of the 54 African countries have enacted data privacy legislation (Greenleaf, 2017).…”

Section: Overview Of Privacy Legislationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Figure 1 shows the African countries that have privacy legislation, from a study conducted by Greenleaf (2017). Twenty out of the 54 African countries have enacted data privacy legislation (Greenleaf, 2017). This implies that only 37% of African countries have data privacy laws.…”

Section: Overview Of Privacy Legislationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The AU Convention is aimed at harmonising previous regional and local data privacy initiatives in Africa (Abdulrauf & Fombad, 2016). (Greenleaf, 2017) In South Africa, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (CSA) ((RSA Government, 1996)), grants all citizens a right to privacy in section 14. The Consumer Protection Act of South Africa (CPA) 68 (2009), further supports this constitutional right by highlighting in section 11 that every individual has a right to accept, stop or refuse communication intended to market services and goods directly.…”

Section: Overview Of Privacy Legislationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Protection of personal information: An experiment involving data value chains and the use of personal information for marketing purposes in South Africa

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Vorster

Veiga

2020

SACJ

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South Africa enacted the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPI) in an effort to curb the misuse of customers’ personal information by organisations. The aim of this research was to establish whether the South African insurance industry is adhering to certain prescripts of POPI, focusing on direct marketing requirements. An experiment was utilised to monitor the flow of personal information submitted to 20 insurance companies requesting short-term insurance quotations, using new e-mail addresses and phone numbers. The results of the experiment indicate that 92% of the marketing communication received did not have prior consent from the researcher. Contact was made by companies outside the sample, indicating third-party sharing. 86% of the unsolicited short message service (SMS) communication received required customers to pay for unsubscribing from SMSs, which is not in line with regulatory requirements. The non-compliance evident in this experiment acts as an early warning to the insurance industry and South Africa, prompting a more concerted effort towards preparation of compliance with POPI. A personal information processing management framework is proposed to aid the insurance industry in understanding how personal information can be processed in line with the requirements of the Act.

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Section: Overview Of Privacy Legislationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Overview Of Privacy Legislationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Overview Of Privacy Legislationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Overview Of Privacy Legislationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Protection of personal information: An experiment involving data value chains and the use of personal information for marketing purposes in South Africa

Zenda

Vorster

Veiga

2020

SACJ

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“…As Greenleaf shows, from 1973 to 2016, the global community have passed laws for data protection on an average rate of 2.7 new nations every year. 55 Though provisions on the protection of some aspects of personal data could be traced in all legal system, the Germans' Hessian Data Protection Act, 1970 was the first regional data protection law in the universe. 56 Whereas Sweden was the first nation to enact a data privacy law in 1973, and following the trend, France, Germany, Denmark, Austria and Norway passed the data privacy laws in 1978.…”

Section: Privacy In the National Legal Regimesmentioning

confidence: 99%