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> Personally I am no fan of GDPR, but I am starting to see why it's necessary. Am not a fan either (but likely for different reasons), but would this be solved

> Personally I am no fan of GDPR, but I am starting to see why it's necessary. Am not a fan either (but likely for different reasons), but would this be solved by Israel adopting GDPR? I'd assume they already have data privacy laws in place, and this still happens. I also don't think that it's a question of increased fines - those just become part of the business plan.

chaosite 7y ago
Israeli privacy laws are from 1981. They don't really cover PII by itself, only in certain cases, and they consequences are insufficient. Israel could probably do with something like the GDPR or CCPA.
- seemslegit 7y ago
  There are more recent ones, and they explicitly exempt privacy violations for political canvassing purposes.
benja123 7y ago
GDPR would have required the app provider to encrypt our personal data and in addition it would have required the government (or who ever is working with them) to make sure either through audit or legal agreement that this is happening. At a minimum it would guarantee legal consequences for those companies that are not protecting PII
- luckylion 7y ago
  The issue is that "requiring best practice" doesn't really help a lot when people/companies/institutions are simply breaking the law. If I understand correctly from the article: Political parties in Israel receive the information of Israeli voters before the elections and have to protect their privacy and cannot copy, erase or transfer the registry. But they did, because reasons. It would be nice if they committed their extralegal activities with more care so they create less collateral damage, sure, but the issue is that people/companies/institutions who don't care about law ... don't care about the law. > At a minimum it would guarantee legal consequences for those companies that are not protecting PII I understand the sentiment, and I wish that was true. Alas, my experience is that it is not.

chaosite 7y ago

Israeli privacy laws are from 1981. They don't really cover PII by itself, only in certain cases, and they consequences are insufficient. Israel could probably do with something like the GDPR or CCPA.

seemslegit 7y ago
There are more recent ones, and they explicitly exempt privacy violations for political canvassing purposes.

benja123 7y ago

GDPR would have required the app provider to encrypt our personal data and in addition it would have required the government (or who ever is working with them) to make sure either through audit or legal agreement that this is happening. At a minimum it would guarantee legal consequences for those companies that are not protecting PII

luckylion 7y ago
The issue is that "requiring best practice" doesn't really help a lot when people/companies/institutions are simply breaking the law. If I understand correctly from the article: Political parties in Israel receive the information of Israeli voters before the elections and have to protect their privacy and cannot copy, erase or transfer the registry. But they did, because reasons. It would be nice if they committed their extralegal activities with more care so they create less collateral damage, sure, but the issue is that people/companies/institutions who don't care about law ... don't care about the law. > At a minimum it would guarantee legal consequences for those companies that are not protecting PII I understand the sentiment, and I wish that was true. Alas, my experience is that it is not.