News regarding Internet law in Israel. This publication reflects only the opinions of the authors and is not made on behalf of Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer or any of the firm's clients
ILITA makes headlines again. On December 6th 2011, During a session of the Israeli parliament ('Knesset') science committee, that was dedicated to mark the international human rights day, the Law Information and Technology Authority announced new proposed guidelines on the use and deployment of surveillance cameras.
In their press release, ILITA describes the need for the guidelines, following a substantial increase in private initiatives to deploy surveillance cameras, including in sensitive areas such as schools, as well as the ...
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The Israeli Law Information and Technology Authority (ILITA) has published new guidelines on privacy principles related to the processing of personal information by outsourcing entities.
The guidelines are not obligatory. However, they reflect ILITA's opinion and serve as legal basis for their inspections and enforcement activities. The failure of a database owner to comply with the guidelines may be regarded as a breach of the Privacy Protection Act, and ILITA may use its powers to impose monetary sanctions. Certain activities ...
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For the first time an Israeli court has found Google liable for invasion of privacy, because the company’s AdWords service allowed a person's name to be used as a keyword without consent.
During 2007, a plastic surgery services company called: Proportzia PMC used Google's AdWords service to promote its services through sponsored links on Google search result pages. Among the keywords used by Proportzia were the name of the Dr. Dov ...
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New regulations and orders introduced by the Ministers Committee for Biometric Applications set the ground for a two years biometric IDs issuance trial period. The Ministry of Home Affairs is making final preparations to start issuing the IDs that will contain encoded fingerprints and facial image, and will be stored in a national database. A campaign led by privacy activists against the controversial biometric database has failed to yield a positive result so far.
Following a long governmental discussion during the past few months, and after considering privacy and security concerns, the justice ministry, through the Law Technology and Information Authority (ILITA), released its conditional permit for Google to operate Street View in Israel.
Google's well known Street View service allows Google Maps users to view panoramic photographs of streets and other public spaces, throughout almost thirty countries, including the USA, some EU member states, Australia, South Africa and Japan.
The Israeli Parliament, the "Knesset", has voted in favor of a third amendment to the Criminal Procedure Law (enforcement rights - body search and seizure of identifying information) (3rd amendment) - 2011 (The law - in Hebrew). The new law broadens the authorities of the Israeli Police and enables them to use genetic information retrieved from suspects who have previously been interrogated, even if charges were not eventually filed against those suspects. In addition, the amendment allows the police to transfer ...
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Over the last few months there has been a lot of pressure on International companies like Google and Apple to improve their privacy policies and protection of their customer's private information. Although privacy issues have been on congress's table for a while now, they have recently been brought back into the spotlights due to numerous privacy violations, including the hacking into Sony systems, the tracking of customer's locations by iPhones and Android phones and the Google Street View program - ...
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The Israeli Knesset approved the 49th amendment to the Communications Act (Bezeq and Broadcasting) (link to the amendment - in Hebrew). According to the amendment, which was proposed by parliament member Alex Miller, Internet service providers (ISPs) will be required to offer their clientele website screening services free of charge and to notify them about "offensive websites" which include content related to sex, racism, violence and gambling. The amendment further requires the ISPs to inform their customers about the ...
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Israel's Electricity authority, has issued the Israeli Electricity Corporation (IEC) a permit to engage in communications and in particular provide Internet infrastructure. The permit is subject to separating the communication business from the day-to-day electricity activities of IEC, and forming a separate company that IEC may hold only 49% of its shares. This was noted to be important due to the fact that IEC is a monopoly in Israel. Opponents to the permit feared that IEC might subsidize its communications ...
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Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced yesterday the establishment of a new national governmental body which will co-ordinate and manage Israel's defense and development needs in the information security field and the ongoing cyber war. Netanyahu stated that over the next few years hundreds of millions of Shekels (the Israeli currency) will be allocated to the establishment and running of this new body and, that "Israel is exposed to cyber attacks which can cripple the systems that help manage the ...
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