An introduction to the protection of personal information in the healthcare practice

8. The 8 conditions for lawful processing of PI

The 8 conditions for lawful processing of PI in terms of Chapter 3 of the POPIA are:

  1. Accountability
  2. Purpose Specification
  3. Processing Limitation
  4. Further Processing Limitation (secondary use)
  5. Information Quality
  6. Openness
  7. Security Safeguards
  8. Data Subject Participation

The following diagram illustrates the 8 conditions and their content for the lawful processing of PI:



The next sub-chapters will discuss the content of each condition.