Following the decision of the Israeli government to submit a bill allowing phone tracking by the Secret Service for the purpose of COVID-19 tracing, a group of Israeli privacy experts and leaders, including Haim Ravia, Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, Karine Nahon, Michael Birnhack, Niva Elkin-Koren, Anat Ben-David, Eran Toch, former heads of the Israeli data protection
Following widespread protest by the Israeli privacy community and the population at large, a decision by the Israeli Supreme Court and a statement from the head of the Israeli Secret Service that its involvement is not necessary given the current state of the pandemic—the Israeli cabinet has decided to withdraw a controversial law allowing monitoring
Dan Or-Hof and Rotem Perelman-Farhi analyzed the Israeli Supreme Court decision on COVID-19 related phone tracing by the Israeli Secret Service in an article for the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
“The violation of the right to privacy is severe because the [Israeli secret service] tracks the location and other personal information related to law-abiding
Privacy officials in Germany penned a position paper arguing that standard contract language and binding corporate rules do not adequately provide data protections necessary for legal U.S.-EU data flows. These two data transfer alternatives to Safe Harbor are not viable.
The German data protection authority (DPA) recommended a path of informed consent. U.S. companies should