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Israel’s Privacy Protection Authority published its guidelines and emphases for protecting the privacy of individuals when conducting COVID-19 epidemiological investigations in workplaces.
In light of the complexity of the issues relating to protection of employees’ privacy, specific guidelines for conducting epidemiological investigations in workplaces were defined:
Training and supervision of investigators
If epidemiological investigations are conducted by an organization’s own personnel (and not by the Ministry of Health), employers are required to provide training to their own investigators on privacy protection matters. Employers should also regularly monitor investigators’ conduct as it pertains to the safeguarding of personal information and the privacy of questioned employees.
Global Legal Monitor
Israel: Privacy Protection Requirements for Conducting COVID-19 Epidemiological Investigations Issued
(Dec. 10, 2020) On November 25, 2020, Israel’s Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) issued clarifications regarding the protection of privacy during epidemiological investigations and the protection of personal data retrieved during COVID-19 contact tracing. The clarifications were contained in a document entitled Emphasizing Privacy Protection in Epidemiological Investigations Aimed at Cutting the Coronavirus Chain of Infection (the document).
In Israel the right to privacy is guaranteed under Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty and is regulated under the Privacy Protection Law 5741-1981, as amended (PPL). Among the principles enumerated by the PPL is the need to obtain the informed consent of the person whose information is requested (the data subject). Other principles restrict the use of the retrieved information to the purpose for which it was collected,