Access To Information Rights

Choose the correct option: You are approached by email to consent to receiving direct marketing material. You delete the email. Which is the correct option: --------------------------------------- Kies die korrekte opsie: Jy word per e-pos genader om in te stem daartoe om direkte bemarkingsmateriaal te ontvang. Jy wis die e-pos uit. Wat is die korrekte opsie. Question * Answer a. They can contact you again to ask for consent. / Hulle kan jou weer kontak om toestemming te vra. b. None of the options is correct. / Nie een van die ander opsies is korrek nie. c. They can now proceed to send you the marketing material as you never refused to receive the material. / Hulle kan nou voortgaan om vir jou die bemarkingsmateriaal te stuur omdat jy nooit geweier het om die materiaal te ontvang nie. d. They can only contact you once. / Hulle kan jou net een keer kontak.

True or False: When an individual requests access to his personal information held by the State, he must show that the information is needed to exercise or protect its constitutional rights. --------------------------------------- Waar of Onwaar: Wanneer ‘n individu toegang tot sy persoonlike inligting wat deur die Staat gehou word versoek, moet hy wys dat die inligting nodig is om grondwetlike regte uit te oefen of te beskerm. Question * Answer a. True / Waar b. False / Onwaar

True or False: In the case of Financial Mail v Sage Holdings, the Supreme Court of Appeal held that it is in the public interest for media houses to publish information that can be regarded as appealing to the public and that this is in line with the constitutional right of access to information. --------------------------------------- Waar of Onwaar: In die saak van Financial Mail v Sage Holdings het die Hoogste Hof van Appél bevind dat dit in die openbare belang is vir mediahuise om inligting te kan publiseer wat beskou kan word as interessant vir die publiek en dat dit in lyn sal wees met die grondwetlike reg op toegang tot inligting. Question * Answer a. True / Waar b. False / Onwaar

Choose the correct option: Which one of the following is NOT a right of a data subject? --------------------------------------- Kies die korrekte opsie: Watter een van die volgende is NIE ‘n reg van ‘n data-subjek nie? Question * Answer a. The right not to receive unwanted electronic communications. / Die reg om nie ongevraagde elektroniese kommunikasies te ontvang nie. b. The right to institute a complaint with the SAPS when unlawful processing of their personal information took place. / Die reg om ‘n klag by die SAPD in te dien wanneer onregmatige prosessering van hulle persoonlike inligting plaasgevind het. c. The right that their personal information must be processed in a legitimate and reasonable manner. / Die reg dat hulle persoonlike inligting geprosesseer moet word op ‘n regmatige en redelike wyse. d. The right to be informed when their personal information is collected. / Die reg om ingelig te word wanneer hulle persoonlike inligting ingesamel word.

True or False: If an auditor is requested to provide information about one of their clients to the Financial Intelligence Centre in terms of FICA, the auditor can refuse to provide the information on the basis of their duties as a responsible party in terms of POPIA to ensure the confidentiality and safety of their client’s personal information. --------------------------------------- Waar of Onwaar: Indien ‘n ouditeur versoek word om inligting oor een van hulle kliënte aan die Finansiële Intelligensiesentrum te verskaf ingevolge FICA, kan die ouditeur weier om die inligting te verskaf op grond van hulle pligte as ‘n verantwoordelike party ingevolge die POPI Wet om die vertroulikheid en veiligheid van hulle kliënt se persoonlike inligting te verseker. Question * Answer a. False / Onwaar b. True / Waar

Choose the correct option: A newspaper got hold of information regarding possible corrupt transactions conducted by a public insurance company. They now apply to the company’s auditors to release the accounting records of the company. a. None of the options is correct. / Nie een van die opsies is korrek nie. b. The newspaper will not stand a good chance to gain access to these records because the auditors are not the owners of the information. / c. The newspaper will not stand a good chance to gain access to these records because of auditor-client confidentiality. / d. The newspaper stands a good chance to gain access on account of public interest. / Die koerant staan ‘n goeie kans om toegang te kry op grond van die openbare belang.

True or False: A responsible party can only be held liable for a data breach that occurs due to external unauthorised access to the information held by them on data subjects. --------------------------------------- Waar of Onwaar: ‘n Verantwoordelike party kan slegs aanspreeklik gehou word vir ‘n databreuk wat plaasvind weens eksterne ongemagtigde toegang tot die inligting wat deur hulle gehou oor data-subjekte. Question * Answer a. True / Waar b. False / Onwaar

Choose the correct option: JP Auditors held a golf day to thank their regular clients for their support. Photographs of the partners together with some of the clients are featured on their monthly newsletter that are solely distributed to existing clients: a. POPIA only concerns itself with information that is kept in a record and will therefore not apply here. / b. POPIA will only allow this if the clients are de-identified. / c. POPIA will probably allow this as a household activity. / d. POPIA does not concern itself with photographs as it only applies to personal information of the clients. / POPIA is nie van toepassing op fotos nie aangesien dit slegs van toepassing is op kliënte se persoonlike inligting

Choose the correct option: JP Auditors held a golf day to thank their regular clients for their support. Photographs of the partners together with some of the clients are featured on their website which is visible to the general public. In terms of POPIA: a. They first have to obtain the consent of the clients to do so. / Moet hulle eers die toestemming van hulle kliënte kry om dit te doen. b. They are acting within their rights. / Tree hulle binne hulle regte op. c. They will be able to do so as it is in the public interest to do so. / Sal hulle dit kan doen omdat dit in die openbare belang is om dit te doen. d. They can do so if they simply omit to mention the clients’ names. / Kan hulle dit doen solank hulle eenvoudig nie die kliënte se name noem nie.

True or False: Once consent is obtained from a data subject to process personal information, there is no need for the responsible party to obtain consent again to have the information stored on a server in another country. --------------------------------------- Waar of Onwaar: Sodra toestemming ontvang is van ‘n data-subjek om persoonlike inligting te prosesseer is daar geen verdere vereiste dat die verantwoordelike party weer toestemming moet kry om die inligting op ‘n bediener (“server”) in ‘n ander land te stoor nie. Question * Answer a. True / Waar b. False / Onwaar