Supreme Court imposes sweeping ban on COVID tracking

• Author: Arutz Sheva Staff
• Date: 01 March 2021
• Published date: 01 March 2021
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

In its ruling Monday morning, the Court partially accepted the petition filed by a group of NGOs including Adalah, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Physicians Clinic for Human Rights, and Privacy Israel.

The petition had challenged the government's decision to empower the Shin Bet internal security agency to track Israeli citizens without their knowledge in order to trace the movements of coronavirus patients and identify people who may have come into contact with COVID carriers.

While the Court did not ban the use of covert Shin Bet COVID tracking of Israeli civilians entirely, it established strict limits on such tracking.

Under the ruling...