1. Basic National Legal Regime
1.1 Laws
The primary sources of privacy and data protection law in the
State of Israel are the Protection of Privacy Law 1981 (the
'Privacy Law') and the quasi-constitutional Basic Law:
Human Dignity and Liberty (the 'Basic Law').
The Privacy Law protects the privacy of individuals by
regulating the storage and dissemination of information relating to
individuals, prohibiting infringement of a person's privacy
without consent and providing for both civil and criminal liability
for such infringement.
Section 2 of the Privacy Law identifies activities that
constitute an infringement of privacy if carried out without
consent, which are:
- spying on or trailing a person in a
manner likely to harass him or her, or any other harassment;
