An Israeli software company that has developed a popular program is currently contending with a complex public relations crisis. The software developed by it is distributed free of charge and in order to produce income the company displays advertising to the program's users. The product has become very successful and the number of users is estimated at many milion around ...
Alongside its traditional military and defence applications, encryption is used in modern communications to encode cellular phone calls; for the security of information sent from Internet browsers to e-commerce sites; the protection of intellectual property in computer files; the management of virtual networks that link remote sites by the Internet; the verification of contracting parties' identities; the security of computer ...
The most recent elections for Prime Minister gave The Chairman of the Elections Committee, Supreme Court Judge Mishal Hashin, more than one opportunity to express his views about the Internet. His central decision, on the connection between the freedom of expression and the Internet, was reviewed at length in this column about two weeks ago. It now transpires that the ...
On 16th September 1999 the Clinton Administration announced a new, far more lenient export policy in respect of encryption commodities. After years during which the American security agencies had claimed that the free export of means of encryption would endanger national security and had required encryption programs to leave a "back door" through which they could access the hidden information, ...
In the first decision of its type, in MF 54749/99, OM 10909/99, Cellcom Israel Ltd v. T.M. Aquanet Computer Communications Ltd et al, the Tel Aviv District Court last week considered the relationship between trademarks and Internet domain names. The decision was awarded by His Honour Judge Yehuda Zafet on an application for a temporary injunction. Its result was the ...
The State Attorney, Edna Arbel, recently (May 2000) laid down policy that email that is not in the possession of an Internet service provider but is likely to pass through its computers in the future, can only be seized, kept and copied after an appropriate order has been obtained by virtue of the Secret Monitoring Law, 5739-1979. Arbel thereby accepted ...
Secrets have special standing in Israeli law. As the Supreme Court has stated: "There are those who view the trade secret as property... and others view it as 'quasi-property' or a proprietary interest... Nevertheless, it would appear that everyone accepts that the trade secret does 'exist' in law and that the law provides means to protect against its exploitation without ...
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