Draft policy makes the State co-owner of all data
5 May 2021
The new Draft National Policy on Data and the Cloud raises alarming implications for data privacy and for increasing the costs of doing business. This is because it proposes sweeping new powers of State surveillance.
Its declared intention is to give the government ownership and control of all electronic data generated in South Africa—by anyone and everyone-- whether it is data held within the country or out of it.
Published for comment on April 1 the prospect the Draft opens up is more State oversight and more control over our lives and the economy by a public sector whose reputation is increasingly dubious.