The purpose of the Protection of Personal Information Act is to:
The terms ‘personal information’ and ‘processing’ are accordingly central to the Act. The term ‘personal information’ means information relating to a person and includes all information about that person, including their characteristics and identifying information and correspondence that are implicitly or explicitly of a private or confidential nature. ‘Processing’ is similarly broad referring to any operational activity concerning personal information including the collection, organisation, storage, modification, communication, and destruction of information.
The Act provides stringent sanctions for non-compliance including civil damages, fines and imprisonment. Non-compliance is also likely to result in significant reputational harm to the responsible business.
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