A new European Product Liability Directive (the “PLD”) now applies to digital and AI-based products. It replaces its predecessor from 1985. The PLD defines rules of evidence and liability for compensation for property damage, personal injury, and data loss. It applies to any company in the supply chain of software and artificial intelligence (AI) systems to the European Union market, ...
Israel’s Finance Ministry and tax authority announced in the last week of April that they intend to bring a digital sales tax (DST) that may reap some ILS 1 billion ($280 million) for its treasury. The tax authorities will be working on the development of a tax on the sales of foreign digital companies in the Israeli marketplace.
The authorities ...
The Israeli Ministry of Justice (“MoJ”) has published a bill memorandum covering a series of proposed amendments to the Israeli Protection of Privacy Law (the “Law”). If enacted, this would be the most comprehensive amendment to the Law since 1996. The bill seeks to amend the definitions of the Law’s key terms, thereby expanding the scope of the Law, and ...
There’s nowhere to hide from the assault on privacy. It’s what threatens modern technology-oriented life and makes it completely different from life just 20 years ago or less.
At first glance, invasion of privacy is not happening within our homes. After all, a man’s home is his castle. If the historic perception of privacy was a man’s right to be ...
The Privacy Protection Authority published draft guidelines on the use of drones in public spaces. Sometimes I wonder about the topics the Authority chooses to review in its guidelines, because from my experience they are not the most pressing issues. But I do know the authority is always well-intentioned and its fine people work their best to make do ...
On Thursday, July 23, 2020, the Israeli Ministry of Justice published for public comment the draft Protection of Privacy Bill (Amendment) (Definitions and Limiting Registration Obligations), 2020 (in Hebrew, here). The draft bill aims to reduce, but not eliminate, the obsolete duty to register databases containing personal information. At the same time, it seeks to update important definitions in ...
A few days ago, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”) invalidated the Privacy Shield program for personal data transfers from the EU to the US - C‑311/18 (CJEU) Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook Ireland Ltd (July 16, 2020). Nevertheless, the CJEU upheld the Standard Contractual Clauses as a valid mechanism for transfers of personal data to ...
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