Israel
Privacy Protection Law, 5741-1981, as amended by Amendment 13
Amendment 13 to Israel's Privacy Protection Law took effect on August 14, 2025. It names biometric identifiers in the new definition of personal information, and it creates a category of data with special sensitivity that includes a biometric identifier used or meant for computerized identification or identity verification. It also gave the Privacy Protection Authority the power to impose financial sanctions for the first time.
Key Provisions
- In force since August 14, 2025
- Biometric identifiers used for computerized identification are data with special sensitivity
- Special sensitivity affects the size of financial sanctions, the duty to appoint a privacy officer and notice to the Authority for large databases
- A duty to appoint a privacy protection officer applies in the cases the law sets out
- Sanctions double for databases holding more than one million people
Your Biometric Rights
- Right to inspect personal information about you in a database (section 13)
- Right to ask that information be corrected or deleted (section 14)
- Right to be told when information is collected from you for a database
- Right to complain to the Privacy Protection Authority
Penalties for Non-Compliance
The Authority can impose financial sanctions of up to millions of shekels per violation, with higher amounts where data has special sensitivity. Refusing a person access to their own information carries a sanction of ₪15,000. Amounts double for databases with more than one million people.
What We Do Here
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