February 1, 2021
For the third consecutive year, following the publication of Gibson Dunn’s ninth annual U.S. Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Outlook and Review on Data Privacy Day, we offer this separate International Outlook and Review.
Like many recent years, 2020 saw significant developments in the evolution of the data protection and cybersecurity landscape in the European Union (“
EU”):
CJEU” or “
Court”) struck down as legally invalid the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, on which some companies relied to transfer personal data from the EU to the U.S. While companies are turning to other frameworks to transfer personal data, such as Standard Contract Clauses (“
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The parties as well as the company behind the app will likely face fines in the tens of thousands of shekels, as some information was leaked online due to security flaws in the program.
All of Israel’s political parties receive personal details of voters before the elections and commit to protecting their privacy, as well as not to reproduce the registry, not to provide it to a third party, and to permanently erase all the information once the election is over. Likud uploaded this information to the Elector app, including voters’ full names, ID numbers, genders and addresses, and in some instances included telephone numbers and other personal details. Yisrael Beiteinu, as well as the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, also used the app ahead of the March election.
What data is Israel actually giving Pfizer?
Experts are alarmed about possible breaches of confidentiality and the lack of transparency in Israel s vaccine deal with Pfizer.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed over the weekend the main reason why Israel is receiving so many vaccine doses so quickly, mainly from Pfizer but also from Moderna. He said that Israel would lead the world out of the pandemic by the end of March and would serve as a large global testing laboratory for the efficacy of the vaccine. Netanyahu explained that Israel would share with Pfizer and Moderna data that would help them continue their R&D on Covid-19 vaccine and other treatments.
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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.