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
Pokémon Go is a reminder that many apps snoop
"Apps are notorious for both collecting and sharing data, often in ways that have nothing to do with the functionality of the app, said Omer Tene, vice pre…
Microsoft Wins Major Privacy Victory for Data Held Overseas
"“Microsoft’s victory over the U.S. government is a resounding affirmation of the endurance of privacy in an age marked by constant data transfers in the c…
EU and US adopt Privacy Shield as US spies promise snooping safeguards
"Omer Tene, Vice President of Research and Education at the International Association of Privacy Professionals, said that Privacy Shield had concluded the…
Privacy Shield gets nod from EU, ripe for judicial challenge
"“The approval of Privacy Shield, an arrangement facilitating commercial data flows between the EU and U.S., concludes a process set off by the Snowden rev…
EU, U.S. sign data privacy umbrella agreement
"Industry professionals warn of the economic consequences that the lack of certainty involving data sharing agreements could create. International Associat…
US businesses: Start preparing for the EU's new privacy regulation
"Businesses are definitely taking note, said Omer Tene, vice president of research and education at the nonprofit International Association of Privacy Prof…
Hello, Privacy Shield
"“We'll need to see how it plays out with U.S. law,” says Omer Tene, VP of research and education at the International Association of Privacy Professio…
FCC outlines proposal for regulating broadband providers' privacy practices
"Omer Tene, Vice President of Research and Education at the policy-neutral International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), acknowledged in an in…
Apple vs. the FBI: Fight for access to terrorist’s smartphone pits privacy against public safety
"The Apple case is the latest in a string of confrontations between government and private industry over access to personal digital devices such as smartph…
Scalia's privacy and cyber legacy -- and what's next?
"Scalia's “sentiment of government surveillance did not necessarily extend to private companies,” Omer Tene, vice president of research and education,…
Scalia’s privacy impact will be felt for years to come
One would think privacy was a concept that Justice Antonin Scalia disliked. After all, how could a textualist, who firmly believed in lawyers’ obligation to fol…
8 Ways To Secure Data During US-EU Privacy Fight
""We haven't seen the solution. We only heard very high-level principles by the European Commission and some data that was added by the Department…