Transparency regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and human oversight over AI outputs – these are some of the new duties imposed by the Israeli Supreme Court’s recent landmark decision on artificial intelligence (Administrative Appeal 63194-08-25 Cohen v. Ramat Gan Municipality et al. (March 23, 2026)). The decision was delivered on an appeal filed by a father of ...
On Thursday, July 23, 2020, the Israeli Ministry of Justice published for public comment the draft Protection of Privacy Bill (Amendment) (Definitions and Limiting Registration Obligations), 2020 (in Hebrew, here). The draft bill aims to reduce, but not eliminate, the obsolete duty to register databases containing personal information. At the same time, it seeks to update important definitions in ...
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) became effective on January 17, 2025, significantly impacting any supplier of technology to the financial sector in the European Union (EU), regardless of their location.
This EU regulation represents a major shift aimed at ensuring that financial institutions are resilient to operational disruptions, particularly those stemming from ICT (Information and Communication Technology) vulnerabilities. DORA ...
A few days ago, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”) invalidated the Privacy Shield program for personal data transfers from the EU to the US - C‑311/18 (CJEU) Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook Ireland Ltd (July 16, 2020). Nevertheless, the CJEU upheld the Standard Contractual Clauses as a valid mechanism for transfers of personal data to ...
Israel’s Finance Ministry and tax authority announced in the last week of April that they intend to bring a digital sales tax (DST) that may reap some ILS 1 billion ($280 million) for its treasury. The tax authorities will be working on the development of a tax on the sales of foreign digital companies in the Israeli marketplace.
The authorities ...
A new European Product Liability Directive (the “PLD”) now applies to digital and AI-based products. It replaces its predecessor from 1985. The PLD defines rules of evidence and liability for compensation for property damage, personal injury, and data loss. It applies to any company in the supply chain of software and artificial intelligence (AI) systems to the European Union market, ...
The Israeli Ministry of Justice (“MoJ”) has published a bill memorandum covering a series of proposed amendments to the Israeli Protection of Privacy Law (the “Law”). If enacted, this would be the most comprehensive amendment to the Law since 1996. The bill seeks to amend the definitions of the Law’s key terms, thereby expanding the scope of the Law, and ...
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