Information officer is the title of the role defined in South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) to the person responsible for encouraging responsible persons to comply with the principles and conditions for the lawful processing of personal information and assisting data subjects make requests and lodge complaints. The title ''information officer'' is synonymous with that of data protection officer
established in the
General Data Protection Regulation
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union regulation on data protection and privacy in the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA). The GDPR is an important component of EU privacy law and of human rights law, in partic ...
(GDPR). The data protection officer is not the same as that of
chief privacy officer in the United States.
The term information officer is not a standard term in EU and USA as it might be confused with
chief information officer role.
An information officer’s responsibilities (similar to those of a
data protection officer) include:
# The encouragement of compliance, by a public or private body, with the ''principles and conditions for the lawful processing of personal information''.
# Dealing with requests made to the body by a data subject.
# Working with the relevant regulator or supervisory authority.
References
External links
Official South African Government GazetteGeneral Data Protection Regulation, final version dated 27 April 2016co. zaInformation officer servicesInformation officer for POPI and PAIAThe role of the information officer
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