The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) has published a preliminary draft of regulations regarding cybersecurity audit and risk assessment that also applies to automated decision-making technologies.

The applicability of the regulations regarding security audits is still open for discussion. The initial draft offers different alternatives for the applicability of the regulations to businesses, based on different criteria of the scope ...

The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority issued new draft guidance outlining specific obligations for corporations processing personal data, to ensure compliance with the Israeli Privacy Protection Law and associated regulations. This draft guidance primarily applies to corporations that engage in significant processing of personal information, or those posing a significant risk to privacy due to their organizational nature, the sensitivity of ...

The Israeli government has formed a committee to scrutinize the police’s utilization of spyware, including NSO Group’s Pegasus software. Investigations published last year in the Calcalist newspaper alleged that the police had extensively employed such surveillance tools without proper judicial authorization. An internal review committee within the Ministry of Justice has largely discredited these findings.

The newly established government committee ...