The body also gave an update on two matters involving Jacob Zuma -- one relating to tax affairs, another to sunshine reporting linked to state security and Iqbal Survé's Independent group.
The Information Regulator has issued an enforcement notice against the TransUnion credit reporting agency for failing to secure personal information leaked during 2022's data breach.
It also provided an update on investigations it has conducted into violations of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (Paia) and Protection of Personal Information Act (Popia) over the past year -- which include two probes linked to former president Jacob Zuma.
One relates to a request for access to Zuma's tax records, while the other links the Sekunjalo and Independent Media owner, Iqbal Survé, and his backers in China to the State Security Agency (SSA) and sunshine reportage about the then president.
The complaint against the SSA relates to a failure to respond to a Promotion of Access to Information request for access to the agency's expenditure information from the 2015/2016 to 2018/2019 financial years, for services rendered to the agency by the African News Agency (ANA) -- which Survé's Independent Media established after the demise of the South African Press Association. ANA was allegedly paid R20-million by the SSA to publish articles favourable to Zuma.
The plan for ANA was to syndicate stories across the continent, with puffed-up ambitions to open offices...
