Israel: a new national biometric database threatens privacy

The Israeli government is looking to regulate the legal status of biometric national IDs, travel documents and passports, but a draft bill on biometric identification, recently introduced, goes one step further than legislation adopted in the more than 40 countries.
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The Relationship Between Privacy And Software Licences

The registration of a domain name that is the same as another person's trade mark, thereby preventing the competitor from using his trade mark for the purpose of on-line activity, commits the commercial wrong of unfair interference. A recent judgment of the District Court of Tel Aviv has applied the tort to the Internet world for the first time. Full Article

The Battle for Email

The State Attorney, Edna Arbel, recently (May 2000) laid down policy that email that is not in the possession of an Internet service provider but is likely to pass through its computers in the future, can only be seized, kept and copied after an appropriate order has been obtained by virtue of the Secret Monitoring Law, 5739-1979. Arbel thereby accepted the position of the ISP, Netvision Ltd, in legal proceedings conducted by it against the State, which was trying to get hold of email by virtue of a routine search order issued by the Tel Aviv Magistrates Court. Full Article

Internet Privacy

Internet users' personal information is covertly shadowed by technologies like cookies. The collection of personal particulars has gained momentum with the start of Internet-based commercial activity. The Protection of Privacy Law indicates the problems involved in adapting law to the virtual world. Full Article