INFORMATION REGULATOR: INPUT SOUGHT ON GATED ACCESS-RELATED DRAFT CODE OF CONDUCT

INFORMATION REGULATOR: INPUT SOUGHT ON GATED ACCESS-RELATED DRAFT CODE OF CONDUCT

• 06 May 2026
• POPIA
• SA Legal Academy

The Information Regulator has called for input by 14 May 2026 on a draft code of conduct apparently made available well after the notice concerned was gazetted. Focusing on the requirements associated with accessing a gated property, once in force the proposed new code of conduct will apply to:

• ‘any public or private body that determines the purpose and means of processing personal information at ... gated accesses where appropriate’, and
• those responsible for enforcing it.

This is noting that the procedures followed when a data subject seeks to enter a gated property usually entail providing and processing personal information. However, research conducted by the Information Regulator has uncovered:

• the widespread use of ‘access control practices of an intrusive nature, including the processing of biometric information’
• the collection of information deemed ‘excessive, not relevant and not limited to what is necessary in relation to the purpose for which it is processed’, and
• processing that ‘does not afford data subjects a reasonable opportunity to object … or to request further particulars’ in the context of 2013 Protection of Personal Information Act prescripts.

Please click the links below for mor details:

• draft code of conduct (published by the Parliamentary Monitoring Group)
• Government Gazette notice

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