Today (Sunday), the International Privacy Protection Day, known in Europe as "Information Protection Day", is celebrated around the world. The purpose of the event is mainly to raise awareness and promote protection of the right to privacy and personal information in the digital space.
New data from the Israeli start-up Mine (Mine), which develops solutions in the field of privacy and data protection, provides new details about the Israeli and international services that hold information about us, and how Israelis conduct themselves online with these services.
No fewer than 300 companies and services hold the information of the average Israeli.
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What is the situation in Israel?
From Maine's data deletion system, it appears that the information details of an average Israeli user are in the hands of no less than 300 different online companies and services.
At the same time, it seems that the Israeli surfer has become more aware of the content he shares and the information he shares.
In 2023, over 50 thousand deletion requests were sent to the system for about 19 thousand online services and websites.
Compared to previous years, there is a noticeable downward trend in the amount of "digital footprints" that the Israeli leaves behind on the net, with a 30 percent decrease compared to the previous year.
Despite the decrease in private information that Israeli surfers leave online, the data shows that Israelis still have a "digital footprint" that is 20 percent larger than the world average.
Israelis still have a "digital footprint" that is 20 percent larger than the world average.
The person photographed has no relation to the article, photo: Lior Mizrahi
Where do the Israelis ask to be "forgotten"?
Coincidentally or not, January is also the month in which Israelis send the largest amount of deletion requests to the services they subscribe to.
In January, on average, 20 times more deletion requests were sent than in the other months of the year.
At the top of the list of sites from which Israelis have asked to be forgotten is icount, which deals with accounting, in second place is the online trade site Wish, followed by ezcount, cardcom solutions, snapchat, ladpc, ebay, femi, pinterest, with rivhit closing the tenth.
In the second ten are other notable sites such as Jobmaster, tabit, Wix, Pelephone, ksp, Shufersell, Dominos Pizza, eventer, myheritage and bezeqint.net
We spend hours in front of the computer - and our information is exposed and analyzed by various parties, Photo: AFP
Gal Ringel, CEO and founder of Main explains that "even though our information is everywhere, only in 15 percent of cases are active services that we use regularly.
In other words, 85 percent of the websites users leave details on - they are the ones that are accessed once."
According to him, "the main problem is that Israeli companies are not bound by privacy regulations, and therefore are not bound to delete the personal information of consumers, which increases the digital risks.
It is important to take this into account and pay attention to where the details are left."
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