Celebrate International Data Privacy Day with us!
As we celebrate International Data Privacy Day, we think back on 2018. We spent a lot of time dealing with a deluge of questions from companies wondering whether they need to comply with the GDPR, and how they can combine their efforts to comply with the POPIA and the [...]
CHEERS TO 2018, BRING ON 2019!
Well, 2018 was one crazy year. Data breaches, dramatic court hearings, lethal deli meats, controversial statements by a leader with freakishly small hands… and that was just at Novation. But seriously, the past twelve months have been the most exciting in our business to date. “Growth” does not begin to [...]
A lawyer, a communication specialist and a change manager walk into a bar…
You know what they say about all work and no play… At Novation we spend an above average amount of time talking, reading, watching series, cycling, drinking wine and playing Lego. We just don’t talk about it that much. So whilst reflecting on the incredible 2018 that the company had, [...]
HAVE YOU HEARD? UPDATED POPIA REGS TABLED AT PARLIAMENT
Finally! The latest version of the POPIA Regulations have been tabled at Parliament. We have all been waiting anxiously for an update to the dreaded Form 4. Here is a reminder of what Form 4 looked like in the draft Regulations. Our first impressions of the updated Regulations and Form [...]
Ethics and data protection in AI
When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) it’s not difficult to see that we find ourselves in a time of great significance. Not only has AI magnificent potential, it is also progressing at a terrifying rate. And although we may not be the first to notice the potential of AI, [...]
Why, and what now Europe?
If you’re in the digital or data driven services industry you most probably received calls from a lot of panicky clients asking whether your service is GDPR compliant. Luckily for many South African companies, the answer would be, “no, we’re not, and we don’t have to be”. However, it is [...]
The C-word
Here at Novcon using the word ‘consent’ is pretty much like telling us you do not like our Lego ... yes, we take offence! So, we have dubbed consent the c-word, mostly because it is misunderstood and abused so often. Here’s why. Whenever someone asks me for my consent I [...]
Compliance & Legal consultant
Novation Consulting is bursting at the seams with work. We need a top performing, creative mind, who knows compliance, risk management, and legal stuff. This is an opportunity to escape the chains of corporate life, to throw away your office shoes, and to do things slightly, okay a lot, differently. [...]
GDPR and POPIA – what you need to know
Boo-Yah! owner Carmen Murray with guest Elizabeth de Stadler : Plain language and privacy law expert - GDPR and POPIA - what you need to know.
Crying over spilled data. Greenwich University and the GDPR.
The University of Greenwich in the United Kingdom was recently fined £120 000 by their Information Regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office. You can read the full decision here. Why do we care? We care because South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) is very similar to the General Data [...]
Employee policies: help your employees play well with others
We often joke that when we start working on a specific kind of document for one client, several other want the same thing at the same time. It’s a strange, but happy coincidence that we’ve seen with financial services, insurance policies, privacy notices and now employee policies. But why are [...]
Why I deleted my Facebook account
For many years I have had significant misgivings about Facebook’s approach to protecting personal information. Despite this I kept a Facebook account as a means for my friends to update me on what they were doing (rather than me updating them, as I just did not trust that Facebook would [...]