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.
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Recent articles
Do Consumers Care About Their Privacy In Practice? The FTC Digs Into The Debate
"Rather than feeling downtrodden and helpless, many consumers are “thrilled or even delirious” about new technology, said Omer Tene, VP of research and edu…
People Like You
Cross-posted from Yale Journal of Law & Technology. For more than a decade, the policy debates around informational privacy have focused on the fickle noti…
Study: Government Privacy Programs Lack Sufficient Resources
"Seventy percent of government programs report less than sufficient budgets to meet their privacy needs, according to a recently released study from the In…
As Safe Harbour ruled invalid, lawmakers reconsider CISA
"Omer Tene, vice president of research and education at the International Association of Privacy, told SCMagazine.com that the Safe Harbour decision would…
DDoS Attacks Create Smokescreens for Larceny
""Government is always fighting resource and budget issues," observed IAPP Vice President of Research and Education Omer Tene. How government an…
E.U.'s Sudden Shift on Data Is a Big Headache for Small Marketers
""The big companies have probably been gearing up for this for some time, but for smaller companies, this is, I think, a much greater challenge becaus…
New report says government privacy programs underfunded, understaffed, but that's changing
"In an interview, Omer Tene, a privacy expert and IAPP's vice president of research and education, said it's not unique that government is cash-str…
As Privacy Debate Rages, Is The Ad Industry Fresh Out Of Ideas?
"“Americans don’t think the trade-off of their data for personalized services is a fair deal,” said Omer Tene, VP of research for the International Associa…
The data backlash: Privacy
"“These are huge numbers,” says Omer Tene (left), vice president of research and education at the International Association of Privacy Professionals. They…
Privacy and Depression Do Not Crash Planes
Cross-posted from The International Association of Privacy Professionals. Privacy does not cause airplanes to crash; neither does pilot depression. The wave of…
The European Privacy Judicial Decision of a Decade: Google v. Vidal-Hall
Over the past few years, Google has been involved in a slate of high-stakes privacy litigation, in issues ranging from the removal of offensive video footage to…
Privacy Pros Want More Say In Marketing and Ad Decisions
""Marketing departments have become much more savvy, and sometimes aggressive about their data-use strategy," said Omer Tene, the IAPP's VP-…