44 African Countries
Adopt Data & AI Protection Laws: How Will This Affect Payroll? Africa’s data protection landscape has undergone a significant transformation in the past year.
For many businesses, the instinctive response is to view these developments as the concern of legal, compliance, or IT teams. Payroll rarely features in these conversations. Ironically though, payroll data is precisely the kind of vulnerable data that these laws were designed to protect: from
employee salaries, bank account details, national identification numbers, all the way to sensitive benefits information. As regulators sharpen their tools, tighten breach notification timelines, and pursue criminal liability, payroll professionals across the continent must gain a better understanding of these laws and how they directly impact payroll data management.
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