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ILITA Issues Guidance to Political Parties on Safeguarding the Registry of Voters

In advance of the upcoming general elections in Israel, the Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority (ILITA – the Israeli privacy regulator) has published guidelines regarding the duties of political parties in safeguarding personal information that they obtain and collect. The guidelines address personal information in the Registry of Voters as well as personal information pertaining to the parties’ members. ...

It is now cheaper to register a database with the Israeli regulator (but why is it required at all?)

The Constitution, Law and Justice committee of the Knesset (the Israeli parliament) approved a reduction of the periodic fees imposed on owners of databases registered in Israel. The Israeli Protection of Privacy Law mandates the registration of databases in a registry maintained by the Israeli Registrar of Databases (the Israeli privacy regulator, nowadays a part of the Israeli Law, Information ...

Israeli Labor Court: Can Employees Copy Their Employer’s Emails?

Ever since the Israeli National Labor Court’s landmark ruling on the Isakov case, we know the Israeli court’s opinion on employers who access their employees’ email accounts: condemnation of the employer and inadmissibility of those emails as evidence capable of proving the employer’s claim, due to the invasion of privacy involved.
 
But what happens when an employee accesses the ...

Israeli Gov't discloses personal information of all dog owners

Wow... how the Israeli Government keeps respecting privacy, while demanding that every corporation be sure to dot the i's and cross the t's on its protection of privacy. This time, it’s the "dog database" smartphone app, which the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture began distributing through app stores in recent months. The app publicly discloses the personal information of all dog ...

Israeli court rules website banner ads aren't spam

Last month, the Israeli District Court for the Central District (Lod), dismissed a motion for class action certification of a lawsuit against Google alleging that website banner ads are unlawful spam pursuant to the Israeli anti-spam law (officially known as Article 30A of the Communications Law (Telecommunications and Broadcasts), 5742-1982; The Hebrew version of the law is available here). ...

Israeli Court Might not Let Facebook off the Hook on Litigating in Israel

A recent decision by the Israeli Court for the District of Jerusalem suggests that lawsuits filed by Israeli Facebook users against the social network, may force Facebook to litigate in Israel, rather than California. The decision was delivered on a lawsuit filed by an Israeli Facebook user who sought court judgment that would prohibit Facebook from deleting content he posted ...

Law.co.il's Haim Ravia Featured in Data Protection & Privacy Laws Annual Review

Law.co.il's Haim Ravia, Senior Partner and Chair of the Internet, IT & Copyright Group at Pearl Cohen, has been featured in Financier Worldwide’s 2014 Data Protection & Privacy Laws Annual Review.

The Annual Review canvasses the opinions of leading experts from around the world who advise on data protection and privacy laws. Haim, who deals extensively with data ...

Bank of Israel publishes draft guidelines on risk management in cloud computing

The Banking Supervision Department at the Bank of Israel (Israel’s central bank) recently published a draft directive letter to banks and credit card companies regarding the use of cloud computing services. The draft directive emphasizes that a banking corporation’s use of cloud services may expose it to “material operational risks related to information security, business continuity, command and control of ...
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