The Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (“POPIA”) was signed into law on 19 November 2013 and draws extensively from the predecessor of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”) which came into play on 25 May 2018 and applies to all European Union countries, namely the European Union’s Data Protection Directive known as Directive 95/46/EC (“EU Directive”).
