The prospect of digital manipulation on major online platforms has reached fever pitch in the last election cycle in the United States. Jonathan Zittrain’s concern about “digital gerrymandering” has found resonance in reports, which were resoundingly denied by Facebook, of the company’s...

This essay examines big data analytics practices in light of Helen Nissenbaum’s contextual integrity paradigm. It critiques Paula Kift and Nissenbaum’s paper, Metadata in Context – An Ontological and Normative Analysis of the NSA’s Bulk Telephony Metadata Collection Program. It argues...

Digital identity is used online not only in contexts requiring strong authentication, but also in less formal interactions where anonymous, pseudonymous, and disaggregated identities can suffice. Increasingly, SNS operators are harnessing their broad user base and wealth of personal information...

The past decade has seen a proliferation of online data collection, processing, analysis and storage capacities leading businesses to employ increasingly sophisticated technologies to track and profile individual users. The use of online behavioral tracking for advertising purposes has drawn...

The article introduces the recent amendment to Israel's Telecom Act, which became effective December 1, 2008. The Act imposes stiff penalties on companies sending unsolicited commercial communications to existing or potential customers without prior opt-in consent. It thus warrants technical,...

Businesses are rushing to collect personal data to fuel surging demand. Data enthusiasts claim personal information that's obtained from the commercial internet, including mobile platforms, social networks, cloud computing, and connected devices, will unlock path-breaking innovation, including...

With a population of 73 million, second only to Germany when compared to the 27 European Union Member States, and a gross domestic product growth rate of 8 percent, Turkey is a force to be reckoned with on the outskirts of Europe. Turkey harbors the largest city in Europe (Istanbul, with an...

In the United States, the philosophical direction of securities laws in the twentieth century has moved away from the rule of caveat emptor towards a requirement of full disclosure, based on the economic premise that complete and timely information makes capital markets efficient. Since the...

For many years, Israel’s privacy and data protection law, which dates back to 1981, did not figure prominently in compliance programs of domestic and foreign companies operating in Israel, due to scarce enforcement activity and low public awareness. The establishment of the Israeli Law,...

Israeli data protection law is in flux. The elevation of the right of privacy to constitutional status has moved the Israeli Supreme Court to extend privacy and data protection beyond the scope of the Privacy Protection Act of 1981 (quot;PPAquot;). The PPA too is changing: driven by...