COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore the crucial role that data collection, analysis, sharing, and dissemination play for governments, academic institutions, and private sector businesses racing to advance […]

Health systems in Israel and around the world have been dealing recently with the outbreak of the new Coronavirus. Since Covid-19 is a new disease, research into it is of great importance to developing new ways of management and treatment.

In the midst of the Coronavirus health crisis, as the economy gradually returns to routine and commercial activity and work resumes, non-invasive temperature testing and health questioning are becoming a condition for allowing entry into workplaces.

The Supreme Court today received petitions directed against the Government’s decision to authorize the Israel Security Agency, with the approval of the Intelligence and Secret Services Parliament Subcommittee to implement technological measures.

Schools are facing tough privacy questions as COVID-19 continues to spread across the world. In particular, schools are grappling with how to inform public health officials of health incidents among students, while still respecting their students’ privacy.

The Government of Israel has activated two parallel and separate digital programs against the spread of the Covid-19. Both programs interact with a central data base of diagnosed patients and their full movements in the 14 days prior to their diagnosis.

The Prime Minister announced the government is planning to use technology to fight COVID-19. They hope to adopt the capabilities usually reserved to Israel’s General Security Service, which to this day have been restricted to fighting terrorism.

A crisis that threatens public health entails a twofold test for human society: devising resourceful ways to outwit the biological health threat imposed upon us and coping with this threat in a way that protects human rights and interests of the individual.