Q. Do you believe companies fully understand their
duties of confidentiality and data protection in an age of evolving
privacy laws?
RAVIA: Media and industry coverage of two
pieces of legislation that took effect in May 2018 have raised
awareness of data protection issues among Israeli companies. The
first, the Protection of Privacy Regulations (Data Security), set
out detailed and prescriptive information security requirements for
all companies processing personal data. Although the Israeli
privacy regulator is currently experiencing organisational
instability, the effect of the new regulations has not subsided.
The second piece of legislation is the EU General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR), the extraterritorial reach of which affects many
Israeli companies. Awareness within companies was further
reinforced recently with the Israeli government laying down a
proposal for a Cyber Defence and National Cyber Directorate Bill,
which aims to establish a national body
