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Israeli Privacy Regulator Publishes Draft Guidance on Monitoring Remote Workers

The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority published draft guidance on the privacy-related aspects of monitoring remote workers. The draft explains that privacy protection laws permit employers to use technological tools to monitor employees that work remotely, subject to certain restrictions. But any such use may only be for legitimate reasons. The use of the monitoring measures must be proportionate and consensual, ...

OECD Members Agree to Protect Personal Data from the Reach of Security Agencies

Nearly forty OECD member countries adopted the first intergovernmental agreement for the protection of personal data with an emphasis on freedoms and human rights when accessing personal data in times of emergency and for national security purposes.

The intergovernmental agreement joins the OECD guidelines for the protection of privacy that were updated in 2013. The new agreement reinforces the standard ...

Israeli Ministry of Justice Opines on Fair Use of Copyrighted Content for AI/ML Training

The Israeli Ministry of Justice has published an opinion that aims to clarify whether and how artificial intelligence (AI)-based ventures may use copyrighted content to train machine learning models. According to the Israeli Ministry of Justice, the use of copyrighted content to train a machine-learning tool is likely to be permissible as ‘fair use’ under copyright law and will likely ...

EU Commission Publishes Draft Decision on Transfers of Personal Data from the EU to the U.S

The European Commission published a draft decision to recognize the United States as an adequate country whose laws are essentially equivalent to the level of data protection required in the EU. The draft decision comes about two months after the President of the United States issued a new executive order to promote the legal mechanism that would facilitate the transfer ...

Israeli Ministry of Justice Proposes Enhanced Privacy Rights Only for EU Residents

The Israeli Ministry of Justice is proposing new obligations and definitions in newly proposed privacy regulations. The obligations will impact the owners of databases with personal data transferred from the European Economic Area. The new obligations include an obligation to delete information, an obligation to limit data retention periods, and data accuracy obligations.

The newly proposed regulations were prompted by ...

UK Court Issues John Doe Injunction Against Cyber Attacker

The High Court of Justice in the United Kingdom issued a permanent injunction against unnamed cyber attackers, at the request of a company that had sustained cyberattacks and whose name remains undisclosed under the court order. The court ruled that the plaintiff's anonymity must be preserved because releasing the company’s identity would advance the goals of the unnamed cyber attackers ...

Epic Games, Developer of Fortnite, Will Pay Half a Billion Dollars for Privacy and Consumer Violations

The developer and operator of Fortnite, Epic Games, had agreed to a hefty settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Under the settlement, the company will pay the FTC a civil penalty of $275 million for violations of the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). This is the largest civil penalty ever given for violating an FTC rule. ...

Israeli Ministry of Finance Calls for Comprehensive Regulation of Digital Assets

A comprehensive regulation of digital assets in Israel is required, in accordance with the developing standards in the western world. This is the main recommendation in the long-awaited report published by the Israeli Ministry of Finance. The report covers digital assets that are not backed by another asset (such as cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ether), as well as digital ...

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