News regarding Internet law in Israel. This publication reflects only the opinions of the authors and is not made on behalf of Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer or any of the firm's clients
The Israeli Law Information and Technology Authority (ILITA) has published a consultation draft guide on protecting personal information in workplace environments.
The purpose of the proposed guide is to reflect ILITA's view of the principles applicable to the right of privacy in personal information that employers store and process, and recommend adequate practices to implement these principles.
The guide is not obligatory. However it reflects ILITA's interpretation of the law. Once formally released, the guide will serve as ...
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The Court refused to imply such authority from the Criminal Law since Internet censorship would amount to an infringement of the public’s ...
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The Israeli Patent Office (IPO) recently announced an update to the patent examination procedures related to the patentability of software claims. This update concludes the revision of the examination procedures, a process that began in 2009. The new procedures describe the process by which a patent application is to be examined, pursuant to section 3 of the Israeli Patent Law, which governs patent eligibility.
Over the years, it has been argued that due to the classification of software as "literary ...
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Ms. Ester Levanon, CEO of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) has recently commented that Flash Traders (also known as Algorithmic Traders) take up a growing capacity of the daily volume of trade in the TASE, as well as in other leading stock exchange venues. Flash Trading refers to traders in the capital market that use high speed digital processing to compute real time supply and demand data for shares traded in the stock exchange. Ms. Levanon noted that the most prominent ...
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The Israeli Law Information and Technology Authority (ILITA) has published new guidelines on privacy principles for applying the provisions of the Protection of Privacy Act on jobs placement services.
The guidelines are a result of a four years process of consultations led by ILITA with placement services, employers and other relevant stakeholders. Their main objective is to enhance the privacy protection of job applicants in an environment where they have little if any choice with respect to the processing of ...
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ILITA makes headlines again. On December 6th 2011, During a session of the Israeli parliament ('Knesset') science committee, that was dedicated to mark the international human rights day, the Law Information and Technology Authority announced new proposed guidelines on the use and deployment of surveillance cameras.
In their press release, ILITA describes the need for the guidelines, following a substantial increase in private initiatives to deploy surveillance cameras, including in sensitive areas such as schools, as well as the ...
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The Israeli Law Information and Technology Authority (ILITA) has published new guidelines on privacy principles related to the processing of personal information by outsourcing entities.
The guidelines are not obligatory. However, they reflect ILITA's opinion and serve as legal basis for their inspections and enforcement activities. The failure of a database owner to comply with the guidelines may be regarded as a breach of the Privacy Protection Act, and ILITA may use its powers to impose monetary sanctions. Certain activities ...
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For the first time an Israeli court has found Google liable for invasion of privacy, because the company’s AdWords service allowed a person's name to be used as a keyword without consent.
During 2007, a plastic surgery services company called: Proportzia PMC used Google's AdWords service to promote its services through sponsored links on Google search result pages. Among the keywords used by Proportzia were the name of the Dr. Dov ...
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New regulations and orders introduced by the Ministers Committee for Biometric Applications set the ground for a two years biometric IDs issuance trial period. The Ministry of Home Affairs is making final preparations to start issuing the IDs that will contain encoded fingerprints and facial image, and will be stored in a national database. A campaign led by privacy activists against the controversial biometric database has failed to yield a positive result so far.
Following a long governmental discussion during the past few months, and after considering privacy and security concerns, the justice ministry, through the Law Technology and Information Authority (ILITA), released its conditional permit for Google to operate Street View in Israel.
Google's well known Street View service allows Google Maps users to view panoramic photographs of streets and other public spaces, throughout almost thirty countries, including the USA, some EU member states, Australia, South Africa and Japan.
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