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
Facebook calls in the philosophers
Facebook's announcement — establishing guidelines, review processes, training and enhanced transparency for research projects — marks another milestone in t…
The Facebook Experiment: Gambling? In This Casino?
Cross-posted from Recode. By Jules Polonetsky and Omer Tene Critics have spent the last few days castigating Facebook for a large-scale experiment conducted b…
The Right Response to the “Right to Delete”
Cross-posted from Recode.net. Co-authored by Omer Tene and Jules Polonetsky. Last week’s decision by the European Court of Justice, requiring Google to delete…
InBloom Wilts Amid Privacy Backlash
Last week, Intel’s director of security policy and global privacy officer, David Hoffman, wrote a Harvard Business Review piece announcing that “Privacy is a Bu…
Q&A with Privacy Expert Omer Tene
"Q. What is the best part of your job? A. All parts of my job are “the best.” Privacy is a fascinating field that’s evolving with astounding speed and mak…
In Standoff with FTC, Wyndham Shoots Itself in the Foot
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) resounding victory over Wyndham Worldwide Corporation in a U.S. District Court paves the way for increasing privacy and dat…
Erecting a New Legal Edifice: Christopher Kuner on Transborder Data Flows
Few people personify the field they work in as much as Christopher Kuner. As a lawyer, European-American, academic and professor, and longtime leader of the ICC…
How To Solve the President’s Big Data Challenge
Cross-posted from Privacy Association.org In his recent remarks on the NSA and surveillance, President Barack Obama grabbed the Big Data bull by the horns. We…
How To Solve the President’s Big Data Challenge
"To help perform such complex calculations and weighty value choices, we support exploring Ryan Calo’s proposal for engaging ethical review boards to vet a…
2013: The Year of Privacy
If there ever was a “year of privacy,” surely it was 2013. A year that ends with dictionary.com selecting “privacy” as “word of the year;” with privacy making f…
The NSA, Tor, Vodafone and LIBE Committee Meet To Chat
Cross-posted from the Privacy Association. Imagine the NSA, European Parliament, Tor and Vodafone having a civilized conversation about privacy. Considering th…
Vint Cerf is Wrong. Privacy Is Not An Anomaly
Cross-posted from IAPP. Privacy may actually be an anomaly,” said Vint Cerf, one of the architects of the Internet, at an FTC workshop on the Internet of Thing…