A bill approved in government: ISPs obliged to offer content filtering

Israeli ISPs will be obligated to offer their customers content filtering services in order to block access to websites that provide gambling, violent or pornographic content. Such content is deemed inappropriate for minors as long as it does not have any artistic, educational, scientific or other redeeming merit. This is stated in a bill approved today by the Israeli's government ...

Army officer accused of accessing his commander's email

The prosecution of Israel's Defense Forces (IDF) will indict a junior officer for illegally accessing his commander's computer files and e-mail correspondence. Allegedly, the junior officer accessed his commander's computer files and for several months read and deleted some of his e-mails, read his personal journal and other classified information "that could aid the enemy to locate targets and make ...

Deceitful Chain Letter: Tnuva Recycles Expired Milk

A chain email letter that has been circulating in Israel in the past few days claims that Tnuva, the country's leading dairy producer, "has invented a new method to recycle milk", and that it "pasteurizes milk which passed its expiration date" and returns it to the retailers. Inter alia, the message claims that "if the milk has been pasteurized ...

University leaked excutives e-mail addreses

Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Management's Executive Education School (LAHAV) inadvertently leaked hundred's of e-mail addresses of leading executives in Israel's private and public sectors. The addresses were leaked in an e-mail message of the 20th of June that included an invitation to an event organized at LAHAV. Apparently the message was addressed CC rather than BCC, thus ...

New Ethical Code Generator for Hebrew Blogs

Effi Fush, an Israeli law student and blogger, promised in early April to publish a first version of an ethical code for Hebrew bloggers. On early June, instead of a paper he launched a personalized ethical code generator, an online application designed to generate a personalized ethical code for individual bloggers.

"After I failed to jumpstart a public debate ...