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Students can refuse to install the software in their computers and instead take the online exams on campus. Under the current coronavirus restrictions, academic institutions are allowed to administer tests on campus to up to 10 percent of their registered student body.
The software that films the students, made by the Israeli firm Tomax, documents what’s going in the room where the students sit using artificial intelligence, with the aim of identifying actions that might constitute cheating, like speaking to another person or suspicious movements in the room. According to the university, that program, as well as the Safe Exam Browser that blocks web surfing, have been checked; they do not penetrate the student’s personal computer and do not collect information from him or her that’s not related to the test.
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The only directives regarding the installation of such CCTV cameras are from the Justice Ministry’s Privacy Protection Authority from 2012, and directives regarding the use of drones as well as an Interior Ministry procedure on cameras in parking structures.
According to the report’s author, Ro’i Goldschmidt, facial recognition cameras are not in use by any of the municipalities that responded to the Knesset research center’s questionnaire.
However, the Israel Airports Authority did not respond to the questionnaire and the Public Security Ministry asked that its replies be kept confidential.
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,
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