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Israel to Regulate Financial Service Providers Dealing in Virtual Currency

The Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) has passed into law legislation that would regulate, among others, financial service providers that deal in virtual currencies. The Supervision of Financial Services (Regulated Financial Services) Law, 5776-2016 seeks to comprehensively regulate non-institutional financial service providers (i.e., non-institutional currency service providers and credit providers), by developing the non-institutional financial services sector and establishing an alternative ...

Israeli Minister of Justice Calls for Cyber Defense Legislation and Liability on Internet Platform Providers

The Israeli Minister of Justice, Ms. Ayelet Shaked, says that certain liabilities should be imposed on Internet giants like Facebook, Microsoft and similar companies, regarding unlawful content and activities on their services. The minister spoke at the Cyber Week Conference held at the Tel Aviv University. The minister revealed that the Ministry of Justice, working closely with the Israeli National ...

Israeli Privacy Regulator Issues Draft Guidelines on Right of Access to Personal Data

The Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority (ILITA, the Israeli privacy regulator) at the Israeli Ministry of Justice has issued draft guidelines on data subjects' right to review their phone call recordings, chat conversations, video calls and other digital information maintained by businesses or other entities providing services to the public. The draft guidelines reflects the Israeli privacy regulator's position ...

Israeli Rabbinical tribunal: content retrieved from spouse’s smartphone without consent is admissible evidence

The Israeli rabbinical tribunal in Netanya ruled that text messages and e-mails that a wife secretly retrieved from her husband’s smartphone and computer are admissible evidence in divorce proceedings. According to the rabbinical tribunal, “the necessity to determine the truth outweighs the husband's right to privacy and right to conceal the abovementioned text messages and e-mails”. The tribunal also stated ...

Israeli Ministry of Justice Contemplating Legislation Allowing Doe Subpoenas against Pirating Users

The Israeli Ministry of Justice is examining the possibility of drafting a government sponsored bill aimed at compelling Internet companies to disclose the identity of internet users engaged in pirating and copyright infringement, through a Doe subpoena. Obviously, having the identify of pirating users would allow copyright holders to legally pursue Internet subscribers for copyright infringement and seek damages. The ...

Israeli Government Proposes a “Facebook” Bill

The Ministry of Justice recently published a draft bill on the removal of criminal content from the web, which has already been attributed the nickname “Facebook Law”. The bill’s declared objective is to provide enhanced measures for dealing with unlawful speech that raises a significant risk to the safety of an individual or the public, or to national security, by ...

ISOC-IL to Launch a Public Cybersecurity Support Center

The Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL) will launch a support center offering private individuals and small businesses assistance in addressing cyber-security incidents – according to a call for tenders published by ISOC-IL. The support center's purpose is to assist end users in handling cyber-security threats. The center will comprise of several layers of assistance:
  • A website with up-to-date, reliable and accessible ...

Israel: Facebook to pay millions in class action settlement

The District Court of Tel-Aviv (Judge Yitzhak Inbar) recently accepted a settlement agreement in a putative class action suit against Facebook. According to the settlement agreement, Facebook will pay 9 million NIS (approximately 2.4 million US Dollars) and will change the mechanisms through which it lets users send invitations to join the social network. The cause of action underlying the ...
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