07 Mar The POPI Act and the laboratory
The POPI Act is essentially an act which protects people from harm by protecting their personal information. The act regulates the flow of information and sets out a code of conduct pertaining to how personal information is collected, handled, distributed and stored and eventually discarded. The POPI Act sets out the minimum standards regarding accessing and ‘processing’ of any personal information belonging to another. The Act defines ‘processing’ as collecting, receiving, recording, organising, retrieving, the use, distribution or sharing of any such information.
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