DATA PROTECTION DIGEST

Archive · November 2025

November 2025: archive

The 3 archive entries on developments from November 2025.

ET · LEGISLATION

Ethiopia's data protection law turns one with no implementing directives in force

A year after Ethiopia enacted the Personal Data Protection Proclamation No.

November 2025 · Legislation
ZA · ENFORCEMENT

Information Regulator discloses unpublished enforcement notices and a telemarketing test case

At a 13 November 2025 media briefing, Information Regulator Chairperson Adv Pansy Tlakula disclosed enforcement notices against Blouberg Municipality, Lancet Laboratories and FT Rams Consulting, a settlement with WhatsApp that is to be made an order of court, ongoing litigation against the Department of Basic Education over matric results, and the Regulator's intention to seek a court ruling on whether telemarketing falls under POPIA section 69.

13 November 2025 · Enforcement
KE · LEGISLATION

Kenya's VASP Act in force: existing operators have until 4 November 2026

Kenya's Virtual Asset Service Providers Act 2025, assented 15 October 2025 and in force from 4 November 2025, made Kenya the first East African country with standalone virtual asset legislation.

4 November 2025 · Legislation · Crypto & digital assets