IsraelComputers Law, unlawful penetration of computer material
In force since .
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not connect with, communicate with, or operate a computer or its material without authorization; doing so to commit a further offence under another law raises the maximum term to five years.
- Whether reading a public, unauthenticated page without defeating any access control falls inside this section has not been confirmed by a reported decision.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 4.1Approaches for mapping AI technology and legal risks of its components – including the use of third-party data or software – are in place, followed, and documented, as are risks of infringement of a third party’s intellectual property or other rights.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Private right of actionNo
Criminal exposure note
Three years' imprisonment for unlawful penetration of computer material under s. 4; five years where the penetration is done to commit a further offence under s. 5. Both offences carry imprisonment only, with no fine.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Sections 4 and 5 of the Computers Law make unlawful penetration of computer material an offence, with a higher penalty when it is done to commit another offence. They impose no duty to create, keep, produce or review a log or record, and state no territorial clause.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 4 makes it an offence, punishable by three years' imprisonment, to unlawfully penetrate computer material located in a computer, defining penetration as connecting or communicating with a computer, or operating it, except a penetration that constitutes wiretapping under the Secret Monitoring Law, 5739-1979. Section 5 raises the maximum to five years' imprisonment where the section 4 act is done to commit a further offence under any other law.
Unlike a computer-misuse statute conditioned expressly on defeating a security measure, section 4's own text does not state that requirement, and no reported Israeli decision confirming or excluding a public, unauthenticated web page from the offence has been located.
When LexLint raises it
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