Big Brother South Africa will not only be watching you,...
Melissa Cawthra is a programme and research officer at the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum (APCOF). In the information age, data is valuable currency and South African public officials are sitting on a gold mine. Most of us are familiar with the Sassa/CPS scandal by now: corruption, fraud and mismanagement within the government’s social security agency leading to the leaking of the personal information of 17 million grant beneficiaries by the company it contracted to make the payments; in turn leading to unlawful and unauthorised deductions from the bank accounts of Sassa grantees...
Source: dailymaverick.co.za