South Africa: Issued legal analysis on Whatsapp’s privacy policy under POPIA
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Issued legal analysis on Whatsapp’s privacy policy under POPIA
On 3 March 2021, South Africa’s Information Regulator announced it had provided a legal analysis of some of the concerns that it has about the privacy policy of Facebook’s Whatsapp. The Information Regulator noted that users who do not accept the te…
Scope
Policy Area
Data governance
Policy Instrument
Data protection regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
platform intermediary: user-generated content
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
data protection authority
Complete timeline of this policy change
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2021-01-13
under deliberation
2021-03-03
under investigation