Experience, Qualifications and Commitment
GP Bouwer Attorneys is built on experience, qualifications and a commitment to our clients. We deliver a professional and single minded service to reach the goals and objectives set by our clients.
No Substitute for Experience
Through GP Bouwer and industry partners, our experience starts with the inception of the PC and the internet to the current cutting edge development in ICT law and computer technology.
Our experience spans from learning to program on an Apple IIE in 1983, navigating the internet through Netscape in the nineties to the modern day ICT legal environment.
We have followed the development of ICT law from its inception to its modern day phenomenon. We have been part of the growth of ICT law and we are continuing to do so through academia and legal practice.
Courses and conferences
Gideon Bouwer
Speaker:
Integrated compliance to consolidate divergent compliance requirements and eliminate duplicate controls
“FICA, RICA and POPIA compliance can be synchronised”
Publications
CDD, GDPR and POPIA Regulations: A Compliance Quandrum FEBRUARY 5, 2021
the european cybersecurity ecosystem: a war on cybercrime europeglobal financial crime review, september 2021 - november 2021
Search and seizure of electronic evidence: Division of the traditional one-step process into a new two-step process in a South African context JUTA (2014) SACJ 156 · Jan 1, 2014
Wolfsberg Principles On AI and Machine Learning
Meet our managing partner
Gideon Petrus Bouwer
Gideon is an Attorney and Managing Partner of GP Bouwer Attorneys which is a specialised ICT law firm. Gideon is the CEO of Cyberlaw Forensics (CLF). CLF drives technological innovation through expertise in information technology law and provide companies and individuals with the necessary legal advice and expertise to grow their enterprises in the field of artificial intelligence and communication technology.
He is a senior consultant at Steyn IP as a Specialist ICT law and AI law advisor. He holds a master’s degree in information technology law and is published on the Search and seizure of electronic evidence- JUTA (2014) SACJ 156. Gideon is referred to as authority on the search and seizure of electronic evidence in Juta - Commentary on the Criminal Procedure Act (Du Toit). He is currently pursuing his LLD (Doctorate in Law) on “The search and seizure of electronic evidence in a global context” at the University of Stellenbosch. This study includes the application of AI in light of the search and seizure of electronic evidence and cross-border data flows.
He has been investigating cybercrime for 24 years since the year 2000. He was a member of the SAPS for 24 years and has more than 30 years investigation experience. He is a regulatory expert in GDPR compliance, and global regulatory compliance with regards to transborder data flow and data protection regulations. Specifically, Gideon specializes in integrated IT compliancy solutions in the GRC space with regards to regulatory requirements. He combines IT and IT-law to achieve workable and implementable solutions.
He is published in ACAMS with regards to the integration of artificial intelligence in financial crime compliance, customer due diligence in context to the GDPR and the European cybersecurity ecosystem. Gideons’ specialty is inter alia POPIA and GDPR compliancy in relation to integrated IT solutions. Gideon has delivered advanced training courses and workshops to major banking institutions and corporate entities in relation to Popia and GDPR. These institutions include Standard Bank, FNB, Capitec, Westbank, Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA), African Rainbow Mineral and SASOL to name a few. Gideon specializes in integrated compliancy requirements such as the relationship between Customer due diligent (CDD), Popia and GDPR compliancy and has been published in the ACAMS European online magazine. Gideon has also been a speaker at various conferences on the integration of regulatory compliancy solutions such as, FICA, RICA POPIA and the GDPR and on how to find combined integrated solutions in context to ICT.
Gideon further specializes in the integration of ICT systems in relation to Governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) which would include effective cybercrime security frameworks. Gideon has inter alia provided training to the forensics departments of Standard Bank, Capitec, FNB as well as African Rainbow Minerals and Sasol, on the development of cybersecurity frameworks and cybercrime.