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Chinese e-commerce site Temu surges among Israelis despite privacy concerns

19.02.24|Orna Yefet

The e-commerce website reached 4.76 million visits from Israel in January, surpassing its competitor SHEIN, and is already closely trailing the likes of AliExpress. However, analysts caution that the app contains software for collecting data on users, which it then sells: “This is why Temu allows itself to sell products at loss prices”

Mine raises $30 million Series B for data privacy platform

05.12.23|Meir Orbach

Over the past two years, the company’s vision has sharpened around its MineOS B2B platform and its aim to provide companies with One Source of Truth for Data inside the organization, which systems and assets they have and what data they keep inside

איור הייטק viki-project-a-print

The rise of information brokers: Unveiling the underbelly of data accessibility

23.08.23|Viki Auslender

Uncovering how information brokers facilitate easy access to segmented data in Israel

סם בנקמן פריד חוזר למעצר

Bankman-Fried case serves as evidence of the price of privacy amid societal scrutiny

16.08.23|Viki Auslender

The US court returned the bankrupt crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried to custody, among other reasons, because he was "caught" using technology that preserves privacy. The larger problem is the hidden consequences for those protecting their privacy

איור ציור יונתן פופר

How Europe is successfully battling tech giants on privacy

24.07.23|Viki Auslender

European regulators are fighting against global platforms such as Meta, Google, Amazon and TikTok, in order to protect the privacy of citizens

Privya raises $6 million Seed round to tackle data privacy challenges in cloud applications

With privacy fines at an all time high, the Israeli startup’s data privacy code scanning platform ensures that private and personal information is kept safe before code is deployed to production

“Our platform is changing the face of incremental marketing”

Israeli startup INCRMNTAL has raised an additional $4.1 million to help marketers measure the value of their marketing activities without the need for cookies and identifiers

Jules Polonetsky FPF

“It is not for Silicon Valley leaders or tech startups to determine the future of our democracy”

10.07.22|James Spiro

Norms are being smashed by private tech companies and governments have finally decided to catch up.

Kahoona founders

Kahoona raises $4.5 million Seed round for privacy-focused data generation platform

The Israeli startup’s solution helps digital businesses protect their users' privacy by generating user profiles through analysis of their interactions with websites

Natalie Noy Bookaway BiblioTech

CTech's Book Review: 1984 - an entrepreneur’s warning about privacy

06.03.22|Natalie Noy

Natalie Noy, GC & VP Corporate Development at Bookaway, shares insights after reading “1984” by George Orwell

העוזרות הקוליות אלקסה גוגל אסיסטנט ו סירי 2

Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri provide stark reminder of need for data privacy awareness

28.01.22|Dov Greenbaum

"Just because a company may not have legal obligations vis-à-vis privacy, created by current laws or the incoming privacy regulations that enforce things like transparency and informed consent to protect collected private information, these laws still create additional legal obligations to protect held personal data from outside hackers," writes Dov Greenbaum

כנס ליברליות בהייטק פאנל יום 2

“Tech giants now have corporate responsibility similar to that of state entities”

Said Emi Palmor, former D-G of the Israeli Ministry of Justice, during a panel on Calcalist and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom’s Values & Innovation Conference

Ido Erlichman Kape Technologies

Israel’s Kape Technologies acquires ExpressVPN for nearly $1 billion

13.09.21|James Spiro

Operating under the Kape Technologies umbrella, ExpressVPN will continue to operate as an independent service

איילת שקד על רקע מאגר ביומטרי

Israel's secret biometric database revealed

17.07.21|Omer Kabir

The database was created without planning by Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority, which wants to legalize it, without the restrictions regulating the country’s official database

Nimrod Vax BigID

In today’s data-driven world, “privacy is a marketing tool”

02.07.21|James Spiro

With companies collecting constant data about their customers, BigID’s Co-Founder and Head of Product Nimrod Vax shares how organizations can help build trust

פרטיות מידע פרטי דליפת מידע סייבר פייסבוק 2

Israel's Supreme Court curbs use of phone tracking for Covid-19 carriers

01.03.21|Reuters

Judges say that the practice that was imposed as a temporary emergency measure, was slowly becoming permanent

Glilot Capital and IVC's Israeli Cybersecurity Technology Landscape 2021

Israel’s 2021 Cyber landscape: Which sector will the new unicorns emerge from?

09.02.21|Elihay Vidal

120 companies from 14 industry sectors made it into Glilot Capital Partners and IVC’s Israeli Cybersecurity Technology Landscape map

פייזר חיסונים קורונה

Survey finds majority of Israelis aren’t worried about sharing vaccine data with drug companies

While Israelis overwhelmingly disagree with sharing their medical data with state security agencies, they are willing to do so with drugmakers in exchange for Covid-19 vaccines

אורנה קליינמן שבוע חדשנות יום ראשון

Internet Privacy: A necessity, not a luxury

28.01.21|Orna Kleinmann

An aware customer-base demands and expects from businesses a proper and holistic consumer experience, which includes protection of privacy, explains Orna Kleinmann

תור חיסון קורונה כיכר רבין תל אביב

Human experimentation oversight committee wants to approve Israel-Pfizer data-sharing deal

19.01.21|Adrian Filut

Does research to examine Covid-19 vaccine’s effectiveness at achieving herd immunity risk citizens’ privacy?