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Israeli Police unveils tattoos database

A new database has joined the DNA database, finger prints and identification photos, which serves the forensic department in the Israeli police - tattoos database. The database holds hundreds of tattoos which can characterize different criminal organizations and groups. It is intended to facilitate the identification of criminals and their affiliations. Seniors at the Israeli police hope to determine the ...

Google to Israel: adopt a Notice & Notice system

Israel should follow Canada and adopt a Notice & Notice system, says William F. Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel at Google, Inc. Mr. Patry appeared yesterday before the Science Committee of the Knesset, preparing the E-Commerce Bill. According to Mr. Patry, most Cease and Desist letters Google companies get, do not deal with copyright infringement but rather with commercial competition ...

Eichmann's full trial protocols are available online

After more than 40 years, the Israel Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has uploaded the full court protocols of Adolf Eichmann's trial to its website. Eichmann was the SS general in charge of executing and facilitating the Nazi regime plan to exterminate all of the Jewish people in Europe. A total of six volumes were published: Three volumes contain the complete ...

Knesset approves Anti Spam Law

The Knesset approved today an amendment to the Israeli Communication Law that prohibits various sorts of spam: email, fax messages, short text messages (such as cellular SMS) and automatic dialing systems - all should be opted in, if they intend to induce the recipient to spend money.

The strict demand requirement for prior consent is mitigated by two exemptions. An ...

A Labor Tribunal disqualified e-mail messages as evidance

The Nazareth District Labor Tribunal has granted [Hebrew] an employee’s motion, during proceedings against his employer, to strike off a number of e-mail messages, included in the defendants’ affidavit. The grounds for the motion were that in order to obtain these messages, the employee’s work electronic mailbox was accessed, thus injuring his right to privacy. The Tribunal commented that these ...

Databases registrar revokes a database registration

Advocate Yoram Hacohen, the Head of the Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority (ILITA) and the Databases Registrar (the Israeli privacy and data protection agency), has ordered the registration revocation of two sensitive databases. The decision, a first of its kind in Israel, followed an investigation led by ILITA of a Pre-employment testing and evaluation company's privacy practices. The investigation ...

Knesset endorse self regulation of talkbacks

Leading Israeli web portals agreed to implement self regulation rules, according to which they will examine users' talkbacks and block those which are clearly and obviously illegal. by doing so, these portals hope to avoid pending legislation that holds large websites accountable for users' content. Neverhteless, the portals told the Knesset today that their consent is subject to immunity from ...

A forum manager to pay 100,000 NIS for libel

A forum manger at the Walla! Website was ordered [Hebrew] to pay compensations in the sum of 100,000 NIS, for her part in libelous publications posted by the public in the forum under her management.  In May 2007, Judge Shoshana Almagor, president of the Tel-Aviv Magistrates’ Court, has determined [Hebrew] that Anat Refuah-Aharonovits is responsible for the publications, due to ...
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