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Use of Facial Recognition Technology at the Entrance to Urban Facilities
Recently, the Habima Theater and Bloomfield Football Stadium have begun using Preciate's (a company that offers facial recognition...
May 11, 20212 min read


Activity of the Cyber Unit to Remove Web Content
ACRI and Adalah petitioned the High Court in November 2019 against inquiries by the State Attorney’s Cyber Unit to content providers...
Apr 12, 20211 min read


ACRI: Surveillance Technologies Should Not Be Used Against Individuals in Quarantine
On 4.3.2021, we appealed to the Legal Advisor of the Ministry of Health in opposition to the memorandum that seeks to allow the use of...
Mar 5, 20211 min read


Success! ACRI Severely Limits Shin Bet Tracking
On 24.9.20, ACRI, on behalf of the Adalah Center, Physicians for Human Rights - Israel, and Privacy Israel, filed a fourth petition to...
Mar 1, 20213 min read


Police SLAPP Lawsuits Against Online Commenters
Over the past year, we have encountered a huge wave of SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) suits filed by the police...
Feb 7, 20213 min read


ACRI petition against unsupervised police surveillance
Today, 28.1, on International Data Privacy Day, ACRI and Privacy Israel submitted a petition to the HCJ against the police use of the...
Jan 28, 20212 min read


Police Using Cell Phones to Document Protestors
On 15.10.2020, ACRI appealed to the Deputy Attorney General regarding a new practice - the documentation of protestors by police with...
Jan 6, 20212 min read


Powerful Police Database on the Movements of Citizens?
On 25.11.2020, along with Privacy Israel, we appealed to the Legal Advisor to the Police, demanding the cancelation of the tender for...
Dec 7, 20202 min read


Police Eavesdropping on WhatsApp Groups
On November 29, 2020, we appealed to the Deputy Attorney General following complaints that we had received regarding police officers...
Dec 3, 20202 min read


Making the Government ID System Accessible to People Living in Poverty
The government identification system is an online system that provides access to a variety of government services, such as: filing small...
Nov 16, 20202 min read


8 Reasons to Discontinue Shin Bet Surveillance of COVID-19 Patients
1. The efficiency of Shin Bet surveillance is questionable, and the marginal contribution of this surveillance to halting the pandemic...
Nov 2, 20203 min read


Facial Recognition in Electric Scooter Services
On 15.10.2020, we appealed to the company Wind in light of its statement about incorporating a facial recognition technology in its...
Oct 15, 20201 min read


Police and Military Use of Facial Recognition Technology
On 21.9.2020, ACRI filed two petitions based on the Freedom of Information Law to the Court for Administrative Affairs in Jerusalem...
Sep 21, 20202 min read


Stop Using Tracking Software on Drivers
Today (30.7.2020), we appealed to the Acting Commissioner of Police requesting to stop utilizing the tracking software “Hawk Eye.” This...
Jul 30, 20201 min read


Coronavirus Tracking and the Right to Privacy
As the Knesset extends the Shin Bet's Coronavirus tracking program, Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) Foreign Press Officer...
May 6, 20201 min read


Want to Work in Israel? Give up Access to Your Phone
During the COVID-19 period, West Bank Palestinians working in Israel are not allowed to return to their homes, forced to leave their...
May 5, 20202 min read


Make Online Learning Accessible for All Israel’s Students
On 29.3.020, ACRI appealed to the Ministry of Education along with Haifa University’s Law and Education Policy Clinic, demanding that the...
May 4, 20202 min read


We Won: HCJ Sides with ACRI Petition Against Shin Bet Tracking Civilians
The measures first taken to give the Shin Bet authority to technologically track those known to be infected with COVID-19, as well as...
Apr 26, 20204 min read

Rights & COVID-19: Privacy
Use of Technological Means to Track the Movements of COVID-19 Patients: ACRI petitioned the HCJ against emergency regulations allowing...
Apr 26, 20203 min read


Knesset Shouldn't Authorize Police to Use Location Data
Today (16.4.2020) we urgently appealed to Knesset members before the temporary Foreign Affairs and Security Committee plenum discussion...
Apr 16, 20201 min read
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