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Cyber law

Personal information in the digital economy: Ownership and legal classification

In today’s digital age, the quantity of digitised personal information has grown exponentially, making it a valuable asset in the digital economy. This commercialisation of information is widespread, spanning beyond […]

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How can South Africa combat the growing threat of cybercrime?

Since the dawn of democracy, South Africa has built for itself a solid reputation of being the most diversified and industrialised economy in Africa, making it the obvious destination for […]

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Cybercrime: Scam alert – ‘pig butchering’

A developing scam has continued to draw attention to a well-known virtual currency investment fraud called ‘pig butchering.’ This scam has its roots in Southeast Asia, and its name is […]

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A step towards advancing AI governance in South Africa

By Haroon Aziz South Africa’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies issued its ‘South Africa National Artificial Intelligence Policy Framework’ document in August 2024. It is the first step towards […]

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Bits and bytes: The future of the legal profession in an artificial intelligence future

The rapid advancements of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have resulted in multiple innovative ways in which AI can be used to help people. This article identifies and explores how recent developments […]

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Cyber breaches: Human element remains by far the biggest vulnerability

By Rob Rafferty I was sitting in a client’s reception, paging through an October 2022 edition of De Rebus, when my eye caught a well written article ‘The need for […]

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Due care and cyber security prevention practices

By Rob Rafferty In my previous article, I discussed the false sense of security when it comes to cyber insurance, and the need to complement such insurance with certain prevention […]

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Ponder before posting, as you may not have the right to be forgotten

There are two approaches that continue to define the global and South African media landscapes, namely, social media and citizen journalism. In its basic form, social media include platforms, such […]

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Is the metaverse a far-fetched reality to access justice?

The metaverse is not a concept that is new within the technology space, despite many of us only having heard of it in recent years. Following the announcement made by […]

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Do legal practitioners truly understand the danger of ChatGPT?

Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) is a phenomenon by OpenAI. The chatbot was launched in November 2022 and has over 100 million users with 13 million unique visitors per day. ChatGPT […]

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