South Africa | Blavatnik School of Government

REGION

South Africa

14 October 2021, 14:00 - 15:30

Regulating privacy in the platform era: a South African perspective

A discussion on the effects of digitalisation on constitutional privacy drawing from the experiences of the South African government in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Digitalisation, the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ and the Constitutional Law of Privacy in South Africa: towards a public law perspective on constitutional privacy in the era of digitalisation

Schwab’s ‘digitalisation as progress’ story, examined in this paper, accurately presents digitalisation as a global process. But this global process has impacts within states and is perhaps primarily responded to at the national level.

Firoz CachaliaJonathan Klaaren

Digital, Cyber and AI

Law

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Digital Pathways at Oxford

South Africa

Publication

16 July 2021