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The (Missed) Israeli snowden moment?/ Amir Cahane

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2021Subject(s): Online resources: In: International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence Vol 34, No 4, Winter 2021-2022, pp. 694-717 (117)Summary: Recent journalistic revelations regarding the metadata collection practices of the Israel Security Agency (Shabak, ISA, or Shin bet), coupled with the public attention to the government's initiative to harness these powers to identify citizens who came into close contact with coronavirus carriers, could have sparked Israel's own "Snowden moment," resolving in a comprehensive reform of its online surveillance legal regime. This article argues that the adamant stand taken by parliamentary and judicial oversight bodies to counter the government's coronavirus-related surveillance should have been also addressed to tackle the new information regarding the ISA's database retaining communications data of Israeli residents that has been collected for nearly twenty years.
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Recent journalistic revelations regarding the metadata collection practices of the Israel Security Agency (Shabak, ISA, or Shin bet), coupled with the public attention to the government's initiative to harness these powers to identify citizens who came into close contact with coronavirus carriers, could have sparked Israel's own "Snowden moment," resolving in a comprehensive reform of its online surveillance legal regime. This article argues that the adamant stand taken by parliamentary and judicial oversight bodies to counter the government's coronavirus-related surveillance should have been also addressed to tackle the new information regarding the ISA's database retaining communications data of Israeli residents that has been collected for nearly twenty years.

ISRAEL, COVID-19

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