The U.S. federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has held that taking data from a website by scraping, crawling or other automated means, does not violate computer abuse state statutes in California and Nevada, even if the method of taking is prohibited by the website’s terms of use, as long as the taking itself, putting aside the method, ...
Can Israeli commercial banks refuse to allow companies engaging in Bitcoin trading to use their bank accounts for transactions related to Bitcoin trading? In a landmark decision issued earlier this month, an Israeli district court answered this question in the affirmative.
The petitioner, Bits of Gold Ltd., is an Israeli company dealing in Bitcoin trading. It opened a bank account ...
Haim Ravia contributed this Israeli chapter in Data Protection & Privacy Laws Annual Review 2017, a publication by Financier Worldwide that covers numerous jurisdictions around the world.
Haim’s commentary analyzes companies' understanding of their privacy and data proteciton duties, outlines the penalties for non-compliance in the Israeli data protection and privacy regime, discusses the impact of cybersecurity incidents, and offers advice ...
Haim Ravia and Dotan Hammer authored a Q&A guide to data protection in Israel. The guide, published by Thomson Reuters and circulated at the 2017 Global IAPP summit in Washington, DC, discusses Israel's data protection and privacy legislation, Israel's data protection and privacy principles, rights of individuals, data security requirements, international data transfers, and much more.
A recent decision delivered by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California illustrates how deficiencies in a smartphone app’s user interface can be fatal when the app’s operator attempts to shield itself from consumer litigation by leveraging the protections it has drafted into its terms of use.
Uber Technologies was sued in a putative class action lawsuit. ...
The Knesset, the Israeli legislature, has voted to approve first reading of the Copyright Law Amendment Bill aimed at enhancing copyright holders’ rights in light of the difficulties they face in enforcing infringements committed on or through the Internet. The Bill emphasizes that it targets commercial-oriented online infringements and does not address enforcement against end users.
The Bill seeks to ...
Haim Ravia and Dotan Hammer recently contributed their expert review of the Israel Country Profile in Bloomberg Law's Privacy and Data Security and authored the Profile's Risk Environment section. The Profile canvasses applicable law and regulation in Israel on privacy, data protection and data security, discusses regulatory authorities, enforcement and risk environment and provides an outlook on emerging issues.
Haim and Dotan also contributed their expert ...
The US Federal District Court in Seattle, Washington has sentenced a 32 year old Russian hacker to 27 years in prison – the longest sentence ever imposed by a US Court for cybercrimes. The hacker, who is the son of a Russian member of parliament, was convicted of running an identity theft and credit fraud network and selling millions of ...
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