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The algorithm will see you now: Competition Regulators turn to AI to catch bid-riggers
by Ahmore Burger-Smidt, Director and Head of Regulatory, and Boitumelo Khwene, Candidate Attorney For decades, the detection of cartels has been heavily reliant on a familiar [...]
Invisible data collection through a privacy lens
by Ahmore Burger-Smidt, Director and Head of Regulatory More than seven million pairs of Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses were sold worldwide in 2025. That figure alone [...]
Cybercrime across borders: Navigating Africa’s fragmented legislative landscape – Part 2
by Ahmore Burger-Smidt, Director and Head of Regulatory, and Boitumelo Khwene, Candidate Attorney In Part one of this series, we detailed the disparity amongst the African [...]
Cybercrime across borders: Navigating Africa’s fragmented legislative landscape – Part 1
by Ahmore Burger-Smidt, Director and Head of Regulatory, and Boitumelo Khwene, Candidate Attorney The Compliance Imperative By the time you reach the end of this sentence, [...]
When the clock starts ticking…… Why cross-border data breach response demands more than good intentions
by Ahmore Burger-Smidt, Director and Head of Regulatory, and Tebogo Sibidla, Director Picture this... A retailer with operations spanning southern and eastern Africa discovers on a [...]
Global AI Governance Frameworks in a Diverging World
by Ahmore Burger-Smidt, Director and Head of Regulatory “The biggest lesson learned is we have to take the unintended consequences of any new technology along with [...]
