The development of technology that can identify a variety of physical and emotional characteristics and specifically biometric technologies have reached a level of maturity and prevalence that they require an explicit legal and normative examination of all aspects of their use. The unbridled rush to develop these technologies in Israel and abroad has neglected to address the legal and ethical aspects. This article examines the development of biometric technologies and the ethical and legal aspects of their use. Israel has great...
This article presents a self-help software system that makes rights accessible through an on-line interview. The interview is based on a formal model of the relevant jurisprudence and does not require the involvement of a service representative, only a user who wants to understand his or her rights. In addition, the article provides a methodology for building models and interviews for similar social contexts and describes building a model for workers’ rights according to Israeli law, upon completing their employment. In addition to...
Adv. Michal Tadjer | Michael Bar-Sinai | Mor Vilozni
In recent years there has been a significant rise in the scope and intensity of information wars between the great powers and other forces in the international arena, and influence campaigns have become a legitimate tool in the hands of politicians, propagandists, and global powers. In this context, the professional literature has focused most on campaigns on social networks while it has almost ignored similar campaigns in the Dark Web where the current research tends to focus on criminal activity. The Dark Web was developed by the...
Today space is an arena with a significant impact on the security, military, economy, and daily routines of many countries around the world and has attracted many stakeholders. As a result, global interest in the development of weapons for use in space—a process known as the “space arms race”—has increased. The purpose of this article is to present the current approaches to the weaponization of space and the activities of the primary and secondary states in this arena, and to propose a new categorization based on their technological...
This article presents the cyber risks that originate in the supply chain and the challenges that they pose. It examines a number of global methodologies and standards for managing cyber risks in the supply chain and proposes a model for concentrated sectoral management of the challenge so that the process of checking and authorizing suppliers will be streamlined. The proposed model has been found to be feasible in terms of the investment and pooling of resources as well as in increasing the general security level of the various...
This article addresses the changes that have occurred in the intelligence work of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the period following the information revolution of the 1990s, and examines how technological developments during this period have improved the intelligence process and how they have affected intelligence surprises. The article describes the effect of technological developments on each stage of the classic “intelligence cycle”—collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination. It also provides a comparative analysis...
Since the 1980s, we have witnessed rapid changes in a world characterized by a neo-liberal economy, increased human migration, and information technologies developing at an unprecedented pace. These transformations are putting stress on modern state structures and have allowed non-state players to enter the heart of global consciousness. These new entities pose new security challenges, including ethnic conflicts, civil wars, the use of robotics-based autonomous weapons, and terrorist attacks both in the physical sphere and...
How does legislation and regulation in the United States structure the relationship between national security and privacy in the digital era? To answer this question, a database was created, consisting of all relevant federal laws and regulations (86 in all) issued between 1967 and 2016 .Each one was classified by the degree to which it represented a contradiction or congruence between national security and privacy. The findings reveal changes favoring national security over privacy in three different timespans before and after the...
The battlefield of today has entered a new era in which the use of advanced robotics-based autonomous weapon systems is steadily growing. Given current international circumstances, the United Nations will, in all likelihood, find it difficult to effectively ban or limit their use in tandem with their technological development. Autonomous weapon systems are likely to become the mainstay of combat within the next two decades or so precisely because of the difficulty in restricting them and due to their advantages for any army that...
The race for dominance in the data highways of the future is at the forefront of the strategic competition between the United States and China. The two powers compete for other countries’ support and infrastructure, seeking to obtain technological, economic, and security advantages. Banning Chinese companies from fifth generation infrastructure (5G) projects is the most explicit demand the United States administration has made of Israel, including clear linkage to American security assistance and intelligence cooperation. Thus, it is...
The many cases of the leakage of classified materials belonging to intelligence and defense agencies have led to claims that contract workers are the reason for these incidents, due to either their lack of loyalty or negligence. In addition, these leaks of classified information, including hacking programs and components, have raised the question of whether this internal threat is also the cause of the increased proliferation of sophisticated cyber weapons among players who do not have the ability to develop them. A prominent case...
