The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has held that Facebook users in Europe may file consumer lawsuits against the social network in their home countries rather than in Facebook’s headquarters in Ireland, but may do so only in their individual capacity and not by class action suits. The decision was delivered in the continuing legal battle between ...
The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK privacy regulator, has imposed an unprecedented fine of £400,000 against the British telecommunications retailer Carphone Warehouse. The action was taken as an aftermath of a cyber-attack that compromised personal data of more than three million Carphone Warehouse consumers and 1,000 employees. The ICO found that Carphone Warehouse violated the UK Data ...
The Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation has approved to promote legislation of a 2011 bill introducing comprehensive amendments to the Protection of Privacy Law giving far-reaching enforcement powers to the Israeli privacy regulator. The bill will now head to the Knesset, the Israeli legislature, for first reading.
According to the bill’s version from 2011, the Israeli privacy regulator will be ...
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, ...
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 ...
The Israel Tax Authority has published a circular draft on taxation applicable to companies that raise money through ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) and to those who hold ICO tokens. The circular is intended to apply only to the issuance of Utility Tokens, namely tokens issued by a central entity that represent an obligation of the issuing entity to provide the ...
The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK privacy regulator, has imposed an unprecedented fine of £400,000 against the British telecommunications retailer Carphone Warehouse. The action was taken as an aftermath of a cyber-attack that compromised personal data of more than three million Carphone Warehouse consumers and 1,000 employees. The ICO found that Carphone Warehouse violated the UK Data ...
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 ...
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