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Israeli High Court Enjoins Disclosure of Personal Data of Unvaccinated Individuals to Local Authorities

The Supreme Court of Israel issued a preliminary injunction against the Israeli Ministry of Health (“MoH”), ordering it not to disclose personal data of individuals not vaccinated for COVID-19 to local authorities and the Ministries of Education and Labor. The injunction was issued against a legislative amendment passed by the Knesset (the Israeli legislature) ten days earlier. The amendment authorizes ...

The GDPR’s Implications on Processing Personal Data for Health Research

In early February 2021, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued a paper clarifying some of the GDPR’s implications on processing personal data for health-related research, in response to the European Commission’s questions on this topic.

The EDPB’s document is a preliminary one. It offers a partial, rather than a comprehensive, overview of the topic. The EDPB indicates that ...

Israeli Gov’t Revises Draft Bill Granting Powers to the National Cyber Directorate

The Israeli government introduced a revised version of a draft bill for Cyber Defense and the National Cyber Directorate. The move comes just a few weeks after the government introduced the bill’s previous version which would have authorized the National Cyber Directorate (NCD) to instruct an organization how it should prepare for cyberattacks, provided the NCD is convinced that the ...

Acting Head of Israeli PPA: Data Breach Incidents - the New Battlefield

Data breach incidents, including ransom demand incidents, are growing increasingly common. They emphasize the importance of data protection measures and compliance with the Protection of Privacy law and the Information Security Regulations. Organizations need to consider whether to discard some of the information in order to reduce the risk in advance. These were the statements of the acting head of ...

Israel: a bill proposes alternatives to ISA tracing of Covid-19 patients

The Israeli government will be required to develop civilian contact-tracing technology, taking into account privacy-driven design from the outset, much like dozens of other countries around the world have done. The applications will be available for use on a voluntary basis, free of charge, and will be based on encrypted and anonymous data. These matters are proposed in a bill [Hebrew] ...

Virginia Enacts Consumer Data Protection Act

The Governor of Virginia signed the state’s Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) into law, marking it the second state in the U.S. to codify a major privacy and data protection law, after California. The VCDPA follows some of the arrangements of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), but still departs from ...

Israeli High Court Orders Gov’t to Minimize Cellular Network-Based Tracking of COVID-19 Cases

The Supreme Court of Israel struck down major components in the Israeli government’s nearly one-year-long use of the Israeli Security Agency (colloquially called “Shabak”) in cellular-network-based monitoring of the whereabouts of individuals for epidemiological investigations to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The Supreme Court ordered the government to cease its current widespread use of cellular-network-based monitoring by March 14, 2021. ...

Israeli privacy and data protection in the context of the Coronavirus pandemic

In Israel, like other jurisdictions, the privacy and data protection regime continues to apply during the Coronavirus pandemic crisis. It is generally flexible enough to allow private and state actors to undertake various anti-pandemic measures.

At the governmental level in Israel, the Israeli prime minister has taken the extraordinary measure of enlisting Israel’s national security agency (known as the General ...

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