Increased Enforcement And Inspection By The Protection Of Privacy Authority

We would like to bring to your attention the following:

I. New Inspection Unit to Increase Enforcement

On August 7, 2018 the Protection of Privacy Authority in the Ministry of Justice (the "PPA") announced that a new inspection unit has been added to the criminal and administrative enforcement agencies of the PPA. According to the PPA's announcement, the new unit will perform a cross-sectorial inspection in order to examine the implementation of the provisions of the Protection of Privacy Law, 1981 and the Protection of Privacy Regulations promulgated thereunder, including the Protection of Privacy (Data Security) Regulations, 2017 (which only recently entered into force in May this year), at all levels of the Israeli economy.