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As of January 1, 2025, the Israeli Privacy Protection Regulations (Instructions for data being transferred to Israel from the European Economic Area) will also apply to data being stored or processed in Israel or in other countries, such as the US and the UK, if these databases also contain data transferred from Europe. In other words, this means that as soon as a database in Israel or another country also contains personal information transferred from Europe, all data in the database must comply with the regulations’ requirements – not just the data that came from Europe, but also the local data or data that came from other countries.

The recent reform of the Privacy Protection Law aligns Israel’s privacy regulations more closely with European standards.

The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority recently published a draft directive that imposes the responsibility for fulfilling certain obligations on the board of directors, including the obligation to appoint an officer responsible for compliance with the Privacy Protection Regulations

New privacy protection regulations drafted by the Israeli Ministry of Justice will obligate Israeli entities to protect data reaching Israel from the European Economic Area, i.e., from EU member states and Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein.

According to the Israeli Consumer Protection Authority’s draft directive, the disclosure obligation applies at all stages of a transaction, including when advertising and marketing an IoT product.

On November 1, 2021, the new Chinese Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) will come into effect. This law is modeled after the well-known European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Like the GDPR, the PIPL will apply not only to Chinese organizations, but also to any organization processing the personal information of people located in China.

Therefore, any organization that collects data from China must comply with this new law or risk suffering the consequences.