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Israel: Settlement in Class Action Suit on Patient Privacy

The District Court in Haifa, Israel, approved a settlement in a consumer class action suit filed against Clalit Health Services (Israel’s largest healthcare provider) and Dikla insurance company, alleging that the two organizations violated the privacy of Clalit patients. The suit alleged that Clalit provided patients' contact information to Dikla for the purpose of marketing Dikla’s long term care collective ...

Israelis Convicted of Distributing Sex Video on WhatsApp

The Magistrate court (court of lowest instance) in Kfar-Saba (a town located Israel's center district) declined the request of two defendants to refrain from convicting them for distributing through WhatsApp video recordings of them having sex with the complainant (a minor).
 
The suspects in the case admitted to the offenses under the Protection of Privacy Law and Defamation Law. The indictment ...

Haim Ravia and Dotan Hammer author Israel chapter in The Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law Review

Law.co.il's Haim Ravia (Senior Partner at Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz) and Dotan Hammer (Senior Associate at Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz) have recently authored the exclusive Israel chapter in the second edition of The Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law Review.

In their chapter, Haim and Dotan review legal trends and developments in the Israeli data protection, ...

Israeli Authorities Investigate Deletion of Unfavorable Credit Report Data from CRA Database

The Israeli National Police and the Ministry of Justice have jointly announced the conclusion of an investigation named “clean slate”, which found that unfavorable financial information about individuals was allegedly deleted from the database of an Israeli credit reporting agency, BDI, a company licensed to provide credit reporting services pursuant to the Israeli Credit Data Services Law.
 
The investigation, ...

Israeli convicted and sentenced to prison for selling IDF transceivers on eBay

An Israeli was convicted under the Defense Exports Control Law, for the selling IDF military transceivers on eBay without obtaining the required permit to do so from the Ministry of Defense. This is the first conviction for an offense under the Defense Exports Control Law, enacted eight years ago. The seller, who earned more than $200,000 from the sale of ...

Israeli Supreme Court Determines What Is Considered Unlawful Intrusion to Computers

The Israeli Computers Law criminalizes intrusion into computer material. This week, for the first time, the Israeli Supreme Court addressed the question of what exactly constitutes intrusion into computer material. The Supreme Court held that the term “intrusion” must be interpreted broadly. Unlawful intrusion should not be limited only to conduct that circumvents technological barriers (“a house without a lock ...

Israelis Arrested for Allegedly Pirating Television Content Online

The elite investigations unit of the Israeli National Police, Lahav 433, detained six Israelis suspected of allegedly operating piracy websites that distributed television content offered through Israeli cable and satellite television operators “Yes” and “Hot”, to tens of thousands of foreign Internet users, for a subscription fee of US $30 per month. The individuals arrested are suspected of violating the ...

The Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority Restricts Data Transfers to the U.S.

The judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) which struck-down, earlier this month, the US-EU Safe Harbor program, now directly affects Israel: the Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority (ILITA) at the Ministry of Justice has published a statement clarifying that the US-EU Safe Harbor can no longer be relied on as a legal basis under ...
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