{"id":4786,"date":"2012-07-09T13:55:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T11:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2012-07-15T15:21:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T13:21:28","slug":"invading-computer-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2012\/07\/09\/invading-computer-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Service Not Authorized to Invade Computer Materials without a Warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) sent a letter today to the Attorney General, <a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2012\/06\/06\/email-searches-in-airports\/\">following recent reports<\/a> that several foreign nationals who landed in Israel&#8217;s Ben-Gurion Airport were required to allow General Security Service (&#8220;Shin Bet&#8221;) investigators to invade their email accounts.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIn the letter, <strong>Attorney Lila Margalit<\/strong> notes that Israeli law prohibits &#8220;invading computer materials&#8221; without a specific warrant from a judge (even when carrying out a legal search in a person&#8217;s home, a specific warrant is required in order to invade computer materials). Attorney Margalit emphasizes that there is no legal directive authorizing the Shin Bet to invade computer materials without a warrant, and there is certainly no directive authorizing the Shin Bet to require that a person provide his or her email account details for it to be searched. &#8220;Considering the above, and considering the severe injury to privacy and to human dignity, we ask that you instruct the Shin Bet regarding the illegality of this practice.&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) sent a letter today to the Attorney General, following recent reports that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2012\/07\/09\/invading-computer-materials\/\">Read more<span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,50],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-4786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-democracy-and-civil-liberties","category-the-right-to-privacy","tag-legal-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4793,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions\/4793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}