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28/08/2024

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27/03/2024

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01/03/2024

Law News This Week:

SA’s data privacy enforcer has issued the first enforcement notice as a result of a direct marketing complaint. This comes at a time when the public is highly frustrated with the influx of direct marketing messages and calls.

The Citizen reports that Advocate Pansy Tlakula, chairperson of the Information Regulator, said it issued an Enforcement Notice to FT Rams Consulting, a training institution business after finding it contravened ‘various sections of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA)’.The regulator received a complaint from a data subject (a person to whom the personal information relates) following countless direct marketing messages received by them. Regardless of the multiple attempts to opt out and requests to be removed from the company emailing list, FT Rams Consulting blatantly ignored the pleas from the data subject and continued to send them marketing messages on email,’ Tlakula said.

She said the regulator determined that FT Rams Consulting interfered with the protection of personal information of the data subject, and thus breached the conditions for the lawful processing of personal information. ‘Our leniency regarding direct marketing through unsolicited electronic communications is going to be a thing of the past because responsible parties (public or private bodies) ignore the provisions of section 69 of POPIA and infringe on the rights of data subjects.

According to the regulator, in the enforcement notice issued to FT Rams Consulting, the company has been ordered, among other things, to immediately stop sending unsolicited direct marketing messages by means of any electronic communication, including telephone, fax, SMS, e-mail or automated calling machine, to any data subject who has not consented, including the complainant.

02/05/2023

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16/03/2023

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02/03/2023

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28/02/2023

It is your attorney's job to give you the best possible advice based on the information you give them.

If you don't give them the full story, or make your own tweaks here or there, it can disarm them in tricky situations and put them on the back foot.

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24/02/2023

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31/01/2023

Opening a is often a different experience at different police stations and nobody really knows what to expect from the process, especially if it’s the first time you’re surfing this wave, and the experience was traumatic.

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13/12/2022

https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/bizarre-case-reveals-that-magistrates-lack-training-20221212

A 'bizarre' case in which a maintenance defaulter was found guilty and sentenced when charges were never put to him and he never pleaded has highlighted an embarrassing lack of training of magistrates in maintenance and family courts.

06/09/2022

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/05/nirvana-win-lawsuit-over-nevermind-baby-album-cover

A US judge has dismissed Spencer Elden’s claim that an image of him as a naked baby on the 1991 album constituted child sexual abuse

22/08/2022

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