Israeli Police Covertly Tracks Users' Online Activities

• Published date: 05 January 2021
• Subject Matter: Media, Telecoms, IT, Entertainment, Technology, IT and Internet, Security
• Law Firm: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz
• Author: Mr Haim Ravia, Dotan Hammer and Adi Shoval

An article published by Haaretz Newspaper in Israel alleges that the Israeli police operate a tool that tracks users' online activities. The police reportedly mandate Israeli internet access providers to re-route certain users' traffic from the public Internet to a network controlled by the police, thus allowing the police to track these users' online activities.

The police reportedly use this tool either to track the online activity of certain users or to track the online activity of certain websites, with the latter form of tracking capturing all users who use the monitored websites. The tool also allows the police to manipulate the content presented to users so that they are presented with content different from...