IsraelProtection of Privacy Law, data subject rights
Protection of Privacy Law, 5741-1981, Arts. 13, 13A, 14
In force.
A data subject rights rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- An app holding the personal data of a person in Israel in a database must give that person a way to access their own data, and must act on a request to rectify or delete it, notifying any prior recipient of the correction or deletion.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
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
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does 'kept in a database' in Article 13(a) of the Protection of Privacy Law give a user a right to personal data that an app holds in logs or message archives that are not organized as a collection of records about that user?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 13 gives a right of access, Article 13A directs a requester to the processor that holds the data, and Article 14 gives a right to have incorrect data rectified or deleted, with notice of the change to every person who received the data. None of them requires a log or a record; the record of data provided by a public body in Article 23C is in a chapter this row does not cite. The cited articles state no territorial hook.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Arts. 13 and 13A give a data subject the right to access their own data held by a database, and Art. 14 gives a right to demand rectification or deletion, with follow-through notice to prior recipients of the corrected or deleted data; Art. 16 imposes a confidentiality duty on anyone with database access. A separate compensation right exists through the enforcement provisions rather than as a standalone rights article.
No General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Art. 22-style right to object to a fully automated decision is identified, and none is asserted either way.
Arts. 13 and 14 are original 1981 enactment provisions, sitting in Chapter B, whose own Art. 37 commencement clause provides that Chapter B comes into force six months from the date of publication of this Law rather than on Knesset passage; the original Hebrew enactment (from the Knesset's own legislative archive) confirms this wording and confirms Art. 13A is not present in that 1981 text, so it was inserted by a later amendment. The Knesset passed the Law on . The sections this entry groups came into force on different days. No commencement day has been located.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app processes personal data.
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