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:
- Accountability
- Purpose Specification
- Processing Limitation
- Further Processing Limitation (secondary use)
- Information Quality
- Openness
- Security Safeguards
- 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.