Deloitte sounds out PPI legislation warning

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Deloitte sounds out PPI legislation warning

The pending Protection of Personal Information legislation will require companies to do more than just secure their data - it will force them to extensively review their business policies and processes argues professional services group Deloitte. more

 

[PeeVee]

I've had a look at this bill, and if implemented in its current form, would make the current practice of selling customer information without their express consent a criminal offence.
It even makes obtaining information, and having information, about a customer that is not needed a crime, and I mean criminally prosecutable in a criminal court rather than a civil court.
I wonder what the implication is for organisations like the credit bureaus (like ITC, KreditInform, etc) that currently are supplied with information of their customers by banks and other organisations without express consent of the information subject.
As the Bill currently reads even this would be illegal as the individual whose information is provided has not expressly consented that the information may be supplied. The Bill talks about express consent and only be court order can override this express consent.
In effect, the Bill also makes the use of any private information for cross-selling purposes illegal.
Certain sections within existing laws are repealed by POPI and will be replaced by the POPI act, i.e. Sections within the Promotion of Access to Information Act, sections within the ECT act and sections within the NCA act.
If implemented in its current form it would effectively make SPAMMING punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment, and would also make the information seller face imprisonment.
So I say, roll on PoPI

 

[Drunkard #1]

I was expecting the article to end with: "Call Deloitte for a quotation."

I'm also looking forward to this Act. Information is the juice that makes modern business run. Everyone wants to gather as much information as possible, at as low a cost as possible, and then maximise their profit from that database. Well I say **** you large faceless corporations that expect me to provide my information to you for free, so that you can sell it on at a profit, while at the same time denying me access to it.

This act can't come soon enough. Data collection is the new gold rush, and self regulation of data collectors isn't working, so it's about time that government stepped in. It's got to the point of ridiculousness: Banks hand over cell number and email address databases to unscrupulous service providers, only to have the service provider use that database for spamming, and the bank (of course) washing it's hand of the mess. Gate guards sell sign in books to spammers. Everyone and their dog adds an ID number field to their standard forms, whether they have a need for it or not. PPC actually asked for my bank details, for a cash-on-order account! The list goes on and on.

Roll on POPI Act.

 

[danlr]

Yeah! Roll on PPI.

I was involved in projects in the UK when they rolled out similar legislation - HUGE changes in normal business practices was required but it was great for the consumers. When implemented the standard line used by cold callers saying "we got your number on the national consumers database" wont fly any more - YEAH