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Unconventional arrest of Israeli blogger, for alleged invasion of privacy

Lory Shem Tov, an Israeli blogger, was arrested and interrogated for several hours a few days ago, on suspicion of invasion of privacy, for allegedly publishing personal documents regarding the General Manager of the Ministry of Social Affairs on the web, including information regarding his parking tickets and financial loans. The blogger is active in the struggle against the Ministry ...

A new bill seeks to enact the Right to be Forgotten in Israel

A new bill was proposed at the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) this week, by Knesset Member Ofer Shelah together with a group of other Knesset Members, seeking to amend the Protection of Privacy Law and enact the "Right to be Forgotten" (Privacy Protection Bill (Amendment - Right to be Forgotten), 5774-2014, available here, in Hebrew). The bill was presumably ...

Ministry of Communications to hold hearing for SLU Service

Following hearings held to expand competition in broadband communications (wholesale market), the Ministry of Communications published a hearing for the Sub Loop Unbundling (SLU) service, and is opening up competition to access network segments between the active communication cabinet of the existing telecom infrastructure providers, and the customer’s home. The service will allow telecom companies that are lacking physical telecom ...

State Comptroller of Israel calls to amend the Israeli Protection of Privacy Law

A recent report issued by the State Comptroller of Israel is severely critical of the failure on the part of the Ministry of Justice, or rather, the Ministry's department of counseling and legislation, to further the abolishment of the database registration requirement in the Protection of Privacy Law. The report points out repeated attempts by the Israeli Law, Information and ...

Knesset advances legislation for new genetic database for babies

Despite widespread objections, last week the Science and Technology Committee of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) approved, for first reading, the bill concerning the establishment of a genetic database for all babies born in Israel. The Knesset member promoting the bill is Mr. Meir Sheetrit, together with the Ministry of Health, as part of the proposal to amend the Genetic ...

Israel Tax Authority to mine web info about taxpayers

The Israel Tax Authority plans to launch a project for mining information about taxpayers from the Internet, as part of the ongoing fight against tax evasion. For this purpose, the Tax Authority will soon publish a tender for a data mining system capable of extracting data regarding indicative economic activity of taxpayers off the web. The information collected will then ...

Consumers in Israel will soon be able to open bank accounts online

Last week, the Banking Supervisor at the Bank of Israel (Israel's Central Bank) published a draft directive, regarding the option for members of the public to open new bank accounts via the Internet, without the need to be physically present at a bank branch. The move is expected to ease the transition hardships consumers often face when moving their bank ...
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