Abstract

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.

摘要

最近关于以色列安全局（Shabak、ISA 或 Shin bet）元数据收集做法的新闻披露，加上公众对政府利用这些权力识别与冠状病毒携带者密切接触的公民的举措的关注，可能会导致引发了以色列自己的“斯诺登时刻”，解决了对其在线监控法律制度的全面改革。本文认为，议会和司法监督机构为应对政府与冠状病毒相关的监视而采取的坚决立场也应该得到解决，以解决有关 ISA 数据库的新信息，该数据库保留了近 20 年来收集的以色列居民的通信数据。 .