The Knesset (the Israeli legislature) enacted an amendment to the Coronavirus measures law to allow for technology-monitored home isolation of Israelis returning from abroad. The law recognizes that those returning from abroad carry a higher risk of contracting COVID-19, particularly global variants of the virus, and thus should be given a choice of technology-monitored home isolation or a physically guarded ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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