POPIA: What’s it all about?

Our e-learning course offers you a creative and interactive learning experience that will stimulate your thinking as it guides you through the basics of the POPI Act. You will not only acquire a high-level awareness of the act but the e-learning will also guide and facilitate a shift towards adopting a culture of privacy and data protection. Achieving compliance is an ongoing process to embed, the principles and intentions of data privacy and protection.

• The specific learning outcomes to achieve at the end of the learning activity include:
• Acquiring a high-level understanding of the structure and basic elements of POPIA.
• Understand the features and application of personal information and processing as it relates to POPIA.
• Gaining an overall deeper understanding of the data protection principles and how compliance revolves around these fundamental elements.

Course topics:

• Overview of global data protection and privacy Legislation Worldwide, focusing on the GDPR, the EU gold standard of data protection.
• The digital age and cyber security looking at hacking protection and crimes to trick and defraud users of electronic communication.
• What is personal information: a look at types and identification of special personal information
• How to process personal information lawfully?
• The right s of data subjects and accountable parties
• The need for POPIA and PAIA to manage compliance
• Cross border information flows
• Data breaches and the consequences of non-compliance
• Data protection principles: the golden thread in POPIA
• Self-quizzes to test and coach understanding