Law note · Israel
Protection of Privacy Law, data subject rights
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.
When LexLint raises it
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What we found
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 was confirmed in what was read for this document; this should not be asserted either way pending a further pass.
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 (fetched directly 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.
Neither the original Law's Reshumot publication date nor Art. 13A's own insertion date was established at primary source this pass, so effective_date is left blank and status is recorded as enacted rather than a guessed in_effect date.