Maya Atrakchi of JacksonLewis reports:
In 2024, Israel became the latest jurisdiction to enact comprehensive privacy legislation, largely inspired by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). On August 5, 2024, Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, voted to approve the enactment of Amendment No. 13 (“the Amendment”) to the Israel Privacy Protection Law (“IPPL”). The amendment which will take effect on August 15, 2025, is considered an overhaul to the IPPL, which has been left largely untouched since the law’s enactment in 1996.
Key Features of the Amendment include:
- Expansion of key definitions in the law
- Personal Information – Expanded to include any “data related to an identified or identifiable person”.Highly Sensitive Information – Replaces the IPPL’s current definition of “sensitive information” and is similar in kind to the GDPR’s Special Categories of Data. Types of information that qualify as highly sensitive information under the Amendment include biometric data, genetic data, location and traffic data, criminal records and assessment of personality types.Data Processing – The Amendment broadens the definition of processing to include any operation on information, including receipt, collection, storage, copying, review, disclosure, exposure, transfer, conveyance, or granting access.Database Controller – The IPPL previously used the term “database owner”, and akin to the GDPR has changed the term to database controller, which is defined as the person or entity that determines the purpose of processing personal information in the database.
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