Popia
Audit SA code for POPIA compliance — PII handling, consent flags, data residency, and DSAR endpoint requirements.From its SKILL.md
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SKILL.md
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POPIA compliance skill
Use when the user is writing code that stores, transmits, or processes South African personal information. POPIA (Protection of Personal Information Act, 4 of 2013) treats ID numbers, biometrics, financial data, and contact info as personal information. Any handler must record lawful basis, capture consent where required, and respect data-subject access requests (DSAR).
Triggers
- "popia"
- "PII"
- "consent flag"
- "data residency"
- "DSAR"
- "south african id"
- "personal information"
Examples
Working example: examples/consent-flag.ts — a request handler that records consent before storing an SA ID number.
Wrong example with explanation: examples/anti-pattern.ts — stores ID number with no consent record. Smoke test asserts the PII detector flags this file.
Common mistakes
- Storing SA ID numbers in plain columns with no
consent_at/consent_sourceaudit fields. The Information Regulator considers this a §11 violation. - Treating consent as a single boolean. POPIA requires purpose-specific consent — a user consenting to marketing has not consented to credit-bureau queries.
- Logging PII into shared observability platforms (Datadog, Sentry) without scrubbing. Logs are processing under POPIA.
- Using US-region storage for SA customer data without a §72 transborder safeguard. Default to ZA regions where available.
- Building a DSAR endpoint that only returns a subset (e.g. profile but not transaction history). The data subject is entitled to all personal information.
What ships with it: 3 files
1.9 KB alongside SKILL.md, 3 of them executable
examples/
- anti-pattern.tsruns462 B
- consent-flag.tsruns516 B
- pii-detector.tsruns994 B