Privacy

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.

In addition to our filing on Patient Rights Regulation, which can be found here, attached is the ITPI Presentation of the Israeli Draft Policy.

Israel is buzzing these past few days with news of a breach of the entire country’s database of voters, which was accessible to anyone through an app developed for the Likkud Party by a company called “Elector.”

Israel has been striving to conduct research on digital health information and seeks to apply a universal and updated government policy to balance the right to research and information, while simultaneously respecting the patients’ rights to health and privacy.

Hong Kong government issued an order prohibiting demonstrators from wearing masks so law enforcement authorities can identify them. Demonstrators were also reported to have knocked down smart lamp posts for fear that the Chinese government are using hidden cameras in the posts to spy on them.

ITPI joined with Google and the Milken Innovation Center in Jerusalem to host a roundtable on smart regulation.

Secondary health data use in research has the potential to improve the lives of individuals, as well as transform health care systems and health-related science and innovation.

This event, organised by the parliament’s research center, raised prominent questions about the role of legislatures and regulators, in governing the internet activity of tech giants, for the protection of people’s rights.

One of the most major developments in data protection in Israel in the past year has been the publication of the Privacy Protection (Data Security) Regulations, in May 2017, which came into effect in May 2018. What’s next?