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A car is set on fire during clashes between Arab and Jews in Acre, northern Israel, May 12, 2021 (Roni Ofer/Flash90)
May 30, 2021, 11:43 am
Netanyahu sought social media blackout during Jewish-Arab unrest — reports
PM said to have suggested move twice, pushed plan to block access to TikTok during major riots in mixed cities earlier this month; legal officials blocked proposal
By ToI Staff
In this October 23, 2019 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
February 25, 2021, 3:06 pm
Aussie battle with tech Goliaths could slingshot in favor of tiny Israel’s media
As Canberra forces Facebook, Google to pay for content, Israel could ‘piggyback’ and reap benefit for its own press but is unlikely to battle online giants itself soon, experts say
By Shoshanna Solomon
A paramedic from Magen David Adom medical services, administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine to a woman at an Ikea store in Rishon Lezion, Israel, Feb. 22, 2021 (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
February 24, 2021, 3:40 pm
Knesset passes law to give cities info on unvaccinated residents
Meretz MK says bill is too quick to hand over medical, personal data; Likud committee head pushes back, says saving lives trumps privacy
By ToI Staff and Stuart Winer
An Israeli paramedic from Magen David Adom medical services, administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine to a woman at an Ikea store in Rishon Lezion, Feb. 22, 2021 (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
February 23, 2021, 2:36 pm
Bill to give info on unvaccinated residents to cities faces final Knesset votes
Health union warns legislation will undermine trust in municipalities; labor union, businesses said close to deal on banning unvaccinated going in to work
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
An education worker receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection, at a Clalit clinic in Jerusalem, January 12, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 18, 2021, 11:23 am
Israel’s data-for-vaccines deal with Pfizer raises privacy concerns
Health Ministry releases details of agreement with coronavirus vaccine producer, but redacted document doesn’t address all questions, including some ethical worries
By Ilan Ben Zion
An Israeli man receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Jerusalem, on January 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 10, 2021, 7:14 pm
Experts urge dose of transparency as medical data traded to Pfizer for vaccines
Privacy activists ask if pharma firm is truly only getting publicly available information, decry lack of transparency and fear what will happen if records are de-anonymized
By Shoshanna Solomon
Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. (Israel Democracy Institute)
July 7, 2020, 12:29 pm
LISTEN: Big Brother is always watching, says expert. Pandemic has made it worse
Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler says Israeli surveillance is much closer to China in terms of invasion of citizens’ privacy than to European governments or liberal Asian countries
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Israeli startup AnyVision uses artificial intelligence to recognize faces, bodies and objects for security and other purposes. (YouTube screenshot)
July 2, 2020, 4:37 pm
Bias claims spur debate on need for curbs, oversight of facial recognition tech
Official at Israeli startup AnyVision says he hopes for regulation of the industry because his firm’s software could never be abused, unlike open-source platforms
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative. (iStock)
April 6, 2020, 9:03 am
Spies are already in your phone. A highly controversial private firm may be next
Fighting the coronavirus contagion, the government has introduced extremely intrusive tracking. Now it wants to bring in the NSO Group, a company accused of human rights violations
By Simona Weinglass
A worker hangs an election campaign billboard of the Likud party shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and US President Donald Trump in Tel Aviv, Israel on September 8, 2019. Hebrew on billboard reads 'Netanyahu, in another league.' (AP/Oded Balilty)
September 8, 2019, 10:27 pm
Pushing for election cameras, Netanyahu takes page out of Trump playbook
With career on the line, PM has embraced tactics of US president, lashing out at media, judiciary, police, Arabs and claiming there is a conspiracy of ‘elites’ trying to oust him
By Josef Federman
A hidden camera allegedly snuck into a polling station in an Arab town by a Likud observer during parliamentary elections on April 9, 2019. (Courtesy Hadash-Ta'al)
August 28, 2019, 5:48 am
After banning Likud’s cameras from polling stations, state now wants to buy them
Election overseer gives go ahead for pilot project for state observers to film when there is suspicion of fraud, and reportedly turns to the only source with enough body cameras
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
A Bedouin Israeli woman votes in the southern city of Rahat, Tuesday, April 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
August 26, 2019, 10:32 pm
In blow to Likud, elections czar bans parties from filming at polling stations
Hanan Melcer green-lights recording by independent observers when voter fraud suspected and during ballot count, but puts kibosh on controversial Likud program
By Jacob Magid
Ballot boxes filled with votes from nationwide municipal elections are brought to the Central Election Committee headquarters for counting, October 22, 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
January 9, 2019, 7:25 pm
Admitting flaws, election committee ‘devising plan’ to thwart foreign meddling
After Shin Bet chief issues alert, body organizing April’s ballot says it’s working to address vulnerabilities to politically motivated cyberattacks, but doesn’t have all the tools
By Raoul Wootliff
IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis enters his new position during a ceremony at the army's Tel Aviv headquarters on May 18, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
September 13, 2018, 2:29 pm
IDF forms committee to determine who’s a military reporter
Army’s decision follows Times of Israel petition to High Court of Justice over alleged preferential treatment given to other news outlets
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Democracy at work: casting a vote the old-fashioned way, in a ballot box. (Paperkites; iStock by Getty Images)
June 12, 2018, 2:57 pm
Democracies under attack as world grapples with privacy policies, watchdog says
Dr Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, says governments must fight the threat that data collection poses to our freedom of choice
By Shoshanna Solomon
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