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The Privacy Protection Authority, as well as the Association for Civil Rights and the Digital Rights Movement, are all coming out this morning against the GSS features discussed in the Knesset.


The Privacy Protection Authority opposes GSS placements

The Privacy Protection Authority, as well as the Association for Civil Rights and the Digital Rights Movement, are all coming out this morning against the GSS features discussed in the Knesset.

Niv Lillian

30/11/2021

Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 12:09 Updated: 12:14

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The Knesset Committee (Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman, Danny Shem Tov)

In a position paper privacy protection authority transferred to the Ministry of Justice in favor of hearing the emergency powers law special Knesset corona virus warfare morning (Tuesday), opposes the authority to operate on patients ISA pinpointing verified or debtors in isolation.



PA said: "The Authority is of the opinion that if he sees that coming days There is no spread of the new strain, or it does not cause a more severe morbidity compared to the known strains, this will have a significant, and perhaps even decisive, impact on the GSS tool, which is a very unusual means of severely violating the right to privacy. A democratic society. "



Similarly, the Digital Rights Movement expressed a position that opposes the reactivation of GSS locations, in a position paper that it also forwarded to the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee convening at this time. It may show that people who were in the same building, and on different floors and did not come in contact - as if they did come in contact.

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The PA opposes the use of GSS placements on verified patients or those in isolation (Photo: ShutterStock)

The movement writes in the position paper: "The use of GSS localities has led to double and multiple damage: First, GSS localities cause over-reliance on technology whose performance is mediocre; second, they prevent the development of alternative technologies and third, they undermine public trust, Epidemiological investigations fail. "



The Israel Civil Rights and Privacy Association adds that this is a serious violation of the privacy of many citizens - and far beyond what is required to locate patients 'contacts, as well as a serious violation of Israeli citizens' constitutional right to privacy, autonomy and freedom of movement.

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