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BGA blocks access to political websites

Ben-Gurion Airport (Israel's international airport) may be all shiny and new, but if you try using the wireless internet connection to surf political organizations websites – right wing or left – you might be surprised to find that these have been blocked. The websites were found to be blocked by the airport's information security and filtering software - Fortinet - ...

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 ...

Guidelines on patentability of software in Israel

The Israeli Patent Registrar ruled last week that a claimed invention restricted to a process executed by computer software, is not a patent-eligible subject matter. The ruling was announced in a policy statement issued by the Registrar Dr. Meir Noam. It puts an end to a lengthy public hearing during which a wide range of views were presented to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

No general right to oblivion under Israeli law

In a first of its kind decision, the Tel-Aviv district court ruled that a subscriber of cellular services does not have a general right to have his phone records deleted.
 
Cellular providers maintain and store, as a general practice, a record of the calls made by their subscribers. The phone records include lists of phone numbers called, received calls, ...

Distribution of IL citizens' data resulted in penalty

ILITA - The Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority imposed a fine of 258,000 NIS (approximately US $68,000) on a company that distributed ulawful copies of the Israeli Citizens' Database.

M.N.R. Information Systems Ltd, a company that provides services to debt collection agencies, has developed a computer software that included information about numerous individuals. The unlawful copeis of the registry ...

Israel: a new national biometric database threatens privacy

A draft bill on biometric identification (Hebrew PDF) has recently been introduced by the Israeli Home Office. The Israeli government is looking to regulate the legal status of biometric national IDs, travel documents and passports, but its proposal goes one step further than legislation adopted in the more than 40 countries that have already introduced biometric passports, in ...
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