Three legal areas / Privacy protection
Privacy protection
Privacy analysis considers how personal information was obtained, used, retained, and disclosed. The current statutory text and the date of each event matter.
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Victor Fisher, receiver in a vehicle pledge enforcement case, will not publish the debtor's personal information
Registrar Shirley Gideon ordered the receiver, Victor Fisher, attorney, to publish the vehicle licence without the debtor's name, ID number or address. Online publication, receiver car sales and the rights of a private person.
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Information disclosed
Identify the document, personal fields, access path, and dates of availability.
Purpose and control
Examine the original purpose, who determined further use, and who could remove the material.
Documented case
The existing vehicle investigation provides the underlying records, technical observations, responses, and unresolved questions.
Legal framework
The Privacy Protection Law
The basic rule
Section 1 of the Privacy Protection Law, 5741-1981: no person shall infringe the privacy of another without consent.
Forms of infringement
Section 2 lists them. They include using information about a person's private affairs, or passing it to others, for a purpose other than the one for which it was given (section 2(9)), and publishing a matter concerning the intimacy of a person's private life (section 2(11)).
Civil and criminal
Under section 4 an infringement of privacy is a civil wrong, and section 29A allows compensation without proof of damage. Some intentional infringements are also an offence under section 5.
Defences
Section 18 sets out defences, for example a publication protected under section 13 of the Defamation Law, an infringement in good faith in the circumstances it lists, or an infringement justified by a public interest.
Amendment 13
Amendment 13 to the law took effect in August 2025. It widened definitions and the enforcement powers of the Privacy Protection Authority. The Authority's guide is linked as the legal source.
A general summary for orientation, not legal advice. The binding text is the current version of the law.
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