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Israel Tax Authority to mine web info about taxpayers

The Israel Tax Authority plans to launch a project for mining information about taxpayers from the Internet, as part of the ongoing fight against tax evasion. For this purpose, the Tax Authority will soon publish a tender for a data mining system capable of extracting data regarding indicative economic activity of taxpayers off the web. The information collected will then ...

Consumers in Israel will soon be able to open bank accounts online

Last week, the Banking Supervisor at the Bank of Israel (Israel's Central Bank) published a draft directive, regarding the option for members of the public to open new bank accounts via the Internet, without the need to be physically present at a bank branch. The move is expected to ease the transition hardships consumers often face when moving their bank ...

Unconventional arrest of Israeli blogger, for alleged invasion of privacy

Lory Shem Tov, an Israeli blogger, was arrested and interrogated for several hours a few days ago, on suspicion of invasion of privacy, for allegedly publishing personal documents regarding the General Manager of the Ministry of Social Affairs on the web, including information regarding his parking tickets and financial loans. The blogger is active in the struggle against the Ministry ...

Left Facebook open at work? The Israeli Labor court is on your side

The Israeli Regional Labor Court in Tel Aviv recently held that an employer that uses the company’s computer after an employee has inadvertently left his Facebook account open on that computer, must immediately log-off the employee's account. According to the Court’s decision, anyone who uses computers nowadays knows that it’s not an uncommon occurrence to come upon a computer at ...

Lawsuit against Waze for copyright misappropriation seeks class action status

A motion seeking class action certification was filed with the Tel Aviv District Court, in a lawsuit against Waze Mobile Ltd., the company that operates the popular navigation service, as well as its founders, and Acrum (a subsidiary of Google that recently acquired Waze). The plaintiff, Roey Gorodish, is requesting that he be recognized as the lead plaintiff in the ...

Ministry of Communications to hold hearing for SLU Service

Following hearings held to expand competition in broadband communications (wholesale market), the Ministry of Communications published a hearing for the Sub Loop Unbundling (SLU) service, and is opening up competition to access network segments between the active communication cabinet of the existing telecom infrastructure providers, and the customer’s home. The service will allow telecom companies that are lacking physical telecom ...

State Comptroller of Israel calls to amend the Israeli Protection of Privacy Law

A recent report issued by the State Comptroller of Israel is severely critical of the failure on the part of the Ministry of Justice, or rather, the Ministry's department of counseling and legislation, to further the abolishment of the database registration requirement in the Protection of Privacy Law. The report points out repeated attempts by the Israeli Law, Information and ...

Did the Israeli Biometric Database undergo the required security test?

Despite the fact that nearly 200,000 Israelis have already voluntarily joined the Israeli Biometric Database Project, the Digital Rights Movement alleges that the security of the database, which stores the biometric and personal data of the 200,000 participants, has not been properly tested, as required by law. The Biometric Database Management Authority released a report last month, which brought ...

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