Omer Tene is an Associate Professor at the College of Management School of Law, Rishon Le Zion, Israel, and a legal consultant admitted to practice in Israel and New York. He consults the Israeli government, data protection authority and private sector businesses, including Fortune 100 companies, on privacy, data protection and law and technology. He was appointed by the Israeli Minister of Justice as Member of the National Privacy Protection Council and is a member of the advisory board of the Future of Privacy Forum; European advisory board of IAPP; and Editorial Board of the International Data Privacy Law (Oxford University Press). He headed the Steering Committee for the 32nd annual conference of privacy and data protection commissioners. He is a graduate of the JSD and LL.M. programs at NYU School of Law and received an MBA degree from INSEAD as well as LL.M. and LL.B. degrees from Tel Aviv University. Omer Tene was an associate at the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton and at the Paris office of Fried Frank and a Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London, where he directed the Data Protection Group. He published articles in English, Hebrew and French on privacy and data protection and comparative financial regulation.
Omer Tene
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Recent articles
To Track or “Do Not Track” – that is the Question
This blog post is re-posted with permission from the Center for Democracy & Technology blog (see here). Jules Polonetsky, Co-chair and Director of the Futu…
Privacy and Data Protection in Turkey: (Inching) Towards a European Framework
Turkey, the land which national poet Nazim Hikmet described as “stretching like a mare’s head into the Mediterranean” is asserting itself as a regional power –…
Israeli court says no to forum selection clause in clickwrap agreement
In a highly important decision, the Tel Aviv District Court annulled this week a forum selection clause in a clickwrap contract, holding the user was not suffic…
What happens online stays online: Comments on "Do Not Track"
Stanford Center The FTC’s Do Not Track (DNT) proposal would essentially provide online users with a convenient universal opt-out of …. well, what exactly? Ad t…
You've Been Tagged
An interesting case with big privacy implications looming: A Kentucky Court of Appeals holds you don’t need a person’s permission to tag them in a Facebook phot…
Privacy Professionals of the World, Unite!
It’s that time of year and more than 2000 privacy professionals are descending on Washington DC for the grandest of all grand privacy conferences: the IAPP Glob…
Review of the EU Privacy Directive
Check out my blog post @ CDT on review of the EU Data Protection Directive. Excerpt: In a way, the process undertaken by the European Commission to review the…
Privacy and quantum physics; privacy as religion
I’ve just returned from a week at the Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics, where I attended a “Perspectives Workshop” on “Online Privacy: Towards In…
Bullish Outlook for the Privacy Profession
Ernst & Young released its annual privacy report this week predicting that “Organizations are expected to invest more money to protect personal information…
Facebook Profile Betrays Yentl's Cousin's "Jewish Credentials"
Sounds like a strange heading, I know. Well – here’s the strange story to go along with it: Israeli daily Haaretz reports on its front page today that Israel de…
Yes - We are "adequate"!
High achievers such as Stanford law students and global privacy leaders don't usually revel in being called "adequate". But the European Commissio…