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Guarding Your Data: Ensuring Safe Cross-Border Transfers of Personal Information
In today’s digital age, the global exchange of Personal Information has become a common practice, enabling businesses and individuals to connect across borders. However, with

AI and Intellectual Property: Should Machines Hold Patents?
Legal debates have erupted around artificial intelligence inventions obtaining patent protection. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, particularly computer

Beware Discriminating Algorithms: Lessons on AI use from the Council for Medical Schemes’ Discrimination and Unfairness Investigation
[First published in the Business Day] The investigation panel of the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) released its final report last week. Black healthcare providers’

Mzansi Meets The Future: South Africa’s First Culturally Tuned Ai, “KAIIA”, Is About To Change The Game
By now, you have probably seen the video. Maybe it landed on your timeline with a cryptic caption. Maybe you spotted it in a WhatsApp

Data in the Cloud, But Grounded By Governance: FSCA and PA Set to Regulate Cloud Computing and Data Offshoring
In a move that signals a step forward in data governance for South Africa’s financial sector, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (“FSCA”) and the Prudential

Opening the Network: What new Individual Electronic Communications Network Services Licences could mean for competition and connectivity in South Africa
On 21 May 2025, the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies released a proposed Policy Direction which could reshape the regulatory landscape as we know
Crypto Pyramid Scheme Unraveled: R4.5 million asset forfeiture
The Durban Specialised Commercial Crimes Court shut down a crypto pyramid scheme by sentencing Mfundo Manci to 10 years direct imprisonment. Manci pleaded guilty on

South Africa’s Draft National AI Plan: Not Good Enough
This article analyses South Africa’s Draft AI Plan and why it is disappointing in its current form.

Cybersecurity Compliance in light of the WEF’s Cybersecurity Outlook
The WEF’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook for 2024 highlights growing cyber inequality and emerging technologies as significant challenges for organisations. This article discusses some of the insights into cyber inequality and emerging technologies provided in the Report.
