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
And yet it moves
Like the Catholic Church’s Congregation of the Index of 1616, which outlawed the movement of the Earth around the Sun, so too did the European Parliament restri…
Framing Big Data and Privacy
Video of the first session from the Big Data & Privacy: Making Ends Meet conference held on September 10, 2013. The event was co-hosted by the Future of Pri…
Privacy and Big Data: Making Ends Meet
Privacy and Big Data by Jules Polonetsky & Omer Tene How should privacy risks be weighed against big data rewards? The recent controversy over leaked docum…
BIG DATA: Professor Omer Tene Explains the Privacy Risks Behind the Buzz
Professor Omer Tene, privacy expert in law and technology, sat down with TAP to discuss the risks big data poses to privacy and the challenges to existing priva…
On government access to communications data
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has recently decided in United States v. Skinner that police does not need a warrant to obtain GPS location data for mobile p…
Big Data for All: Privacy and User Control in the Age of Analytics
Much has been written over the past couple of years about “big data” (See, for example, here and here and here). In a new article, Big Data for All: Privacy and…
On Reverse Engineering Privacy Law
Michael Birnhack, a professor at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, is one of the leading thinkers about privacy and data protection today (for some of his pre…
Privacy, Masks and Religion
Photo: Basking & masking. In China, where sun tan is negatively stigmatized, beach goers wear masks. One of the most significant developments for privacy l…
There is no new thing under the sun
Photo: Like its namesake, the European Data Protection Directive ("DPD"), this Mercedes is old, German-designed, clunky and noisy – yet effective. [Ph…
Privacy: For the Rich or for the Poor?
I am delighted to have been invited to guest blog on Concurring Opinions for the next few weeks. I am re-posting here with permission a shorter version of my po…
To Track or “Do Not Track”: Advancing Transparency and Individual Control in Online Behavioral Advertising
Authors: Omer Tene & Jules Polonetsky From the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology Voume 13, Issue 1, Winter 2012. * Publication Type:Aca…
Me, Myself and I: Aggregated and Disaggregated Identities on Social Networking Services
Digital identity is used online not only in contexts requiring strong authentication, such as e-government or online banking, but also in less formal interactio…