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Left Facebook open at work? The Israeli Labor court is on your side

The Israeli Regional Labor Court in Tel Aviv recently held that an employer that uses the company’s computer after an employee has inadvertently left his Facebook account open on that computer, must immediately log-off the employee's account. According to the Court’s decision, anyone who uses computers nowadays knows that it’s not an uncommon occurrence to come upon a computer at ...

Diner sues IDF soldiers for defamation on Facebook

The owners of “HaTeymania Shel Nabi Musa” (loosely translated: Nabi Musa's Yemeni Eatery), the eatery adjacent to the IDF base near Ma’ale Adumim (a town nearby Jerusalem), recently filed a 1.5 million Shekels (approximately US$430,000) defamation suit against 17 of the military base’s soldiers. The couple that owns the eatery claim that several years ago, the soldiers opened a Facebook ...

Lawsuit against Waze for copyright misappropriation seeks class action status

A motion seeking class action certification was filed with the Tel Aviv District Court, in a lawsuit against Waze Mobile Ltd., the company that operates the popular navigation service, as well as its founders, and Acrum (a subsidiary of Google that recently acquired Waze). The plaintiff, Roey Gorodish, is requesting that he be recognized as the lead plaintiff in the ...

Facebook refuses to comply with Israeli court order

The District Court in Jerusalem recently issued an order requiring Facebook to release correspondences stored on its servers, which allegedly took place between a defendant indicted for rape and the alleged 17 year-old rape victim. The court issued the order to allow the defendant to prove his claim that the relationship with the minor in question was consensual. However, upon ...

Billion Shekel class action suit filed against WhatsApp

Two months ago, a request to approve a one billion NIS (approximately 287 million US Dollars) class action lawsuit was filed with the District Court of Tel-Aviv, against WhatsApp, the California-based company that develops and distributes the popular texting app (recently acquired by Facebook). The application for approval of the class action suit alleges a number of causes of action, ...

Did the Israeli Biometric Database undergo the required security test?

Despite the fact that nearly 200,000 Israelis have already voluntarily joined the Israeli Biometric Database Project, the Digital Rights Movement alleges that the security of the database, which stores the biometric and personal data of the 200,000 participants, has not been properly tested, as required by law. The Biometric Database Management Authority released a report last month, which brought ...

?Did the biometric database pass required testing

Despite the fact that nearly 200,000 Israelis have already voluntarily joined the biometric database project, the Digital Rights Movement is claiming that the security of the database, which stores the biometric and personal data of its subjects, has not been secured, as required by law. The Database Management Authority released a report last month, which brought to light that seemingly, ...

New Israeli bill would require search engines to pay royalties

A private bill was submitted by nine members of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) last week, seeking legislation that would require search engines to pay royalties to content creators, whose sites are among those included in the search results {Bill to regulate payments to content creators on the Internet, 5774-2014, available in Hebrew, here}.

According to the bill's explanatory ...
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