- Privacy and technology are closely related with impact on each other an ongoing research subject for decades
- Fourth Era of Information Privacy Compliance Laws, for example, POPIA
- By the end of 2020, 44 zettabytes make up entire digital universe
- Moore’s Law: increase in power and decrease in relative cost at an exponential pace – doubling occurring every two years
- Reflect on how many photos and videos on your mobile device alone.
- “The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.
- Access to big data to form business insights, driving sales and growth
- Annual increases of high-profile data breaches, occurring more and more frequently. Cause: poor controls or negligence.
- Experian data breach: exposed 23.4 million South Africans and 800,000 businesses personal credentials.
- Users, consumers and citizens parted with their personal information without really knowing what they were signing up for.
- Legislators globally recognised the basic right to privacy.
- A global movement towards data protection bills limit the power and use of data
- Codified in law legal remedies for negligent data leakages, data mining and discriminatory data analytic practices
- South Africa’s democratic Constitution and the Bill of Rights vocalises protection of the right to privacy of individuals
