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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

3/ הטענה העיקרית היא שהמחיר של טכניקות אלו אינו אלא האצלה של שיקול דעת מהמחוקק לרשות המבצעת, וכי במיוחד בהקשרים בטחוניים – יש לוודא כי הפעלת שיקול דעת כזה לאחר החקיקה מצוי תחת פיקוח ובקרה. למאמר המלא (זהירות, אנגלית!): 📖 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Future-Proofing Israeli Surveillance Law: Past, Present and Future | Israel Law Review | Cambridge Core

Future-Proofing Israeli Surveillance Law: Past, Present and Future

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

2/ הרשימה, המבוססת על מאמר רחב יותר, סוקרת טכניקות לחיסון עתיד (futureproofing) שנועדו לשמור על החקיקה מפני שינויים נוכח אי ודאות עתידית ובוחנת מספר מופעים שלהם בחוק השב"כ.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

1/ תזכיר חוק השב"כ על המדף מדצ' 2023, ועוד לפני כן, עתירת האגודה לזכויות האזרח בישראל, בעניין הפגמים במסגרת המשפטית שבחוק השב"כ שמסדירה את 'הכלי' הזכור לנו מהקורונה, תלויה ועומדת ממאי 22.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

1/ תזכיר חוק השב"כ על המדף מדצ' 2023, ועוד לפני כן, עתירת האגודה לזכויות האזרח בישראל בעניין הפגמים במסגרת המשפטית שבחוק השב"כ שמסדירה את 'הכלי' הזכור לנו מהקורונה, תלויה ועומדת ממאי 22.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🤖📢My case note on the Israeli case of Ben Cohen v. the Municipality of Ramat Gan, which deals with AI hallucinations within the context of administrative decision making, is out now in the recent volume of the Journal of AI Law and Regulation (AIRe). aire.lexxion.eu/article/AIRE...

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Ben Cohen v Municipality of Ramat Gan: AI Hallucinations in Administra

<p>CA (Administrative) 63194-08-25, Supreme Court of Israel, 22 March 2026 This case note analyses Ben Cohen v Municipality of Ramat Gan (Supreme Court of Israel, 22 March 2026), the first Israeli dec

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The Israeli Forum for Intelligence Studies (IFIS) @ilintelligence.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The next Israeli Forum for Intelligence Studies webinar will host Dr. Aviva Guttmann, presenting her book 'Operation Wrath of God: The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad’s Assassination Campaign'. 🗓️ Thursday, July 2, at 11 am EST / 17 pm CET Register here: shorturl.at/ohQZw

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

/6 It also introduces new mechanisms enabling executive authorisation of entirely new surveillance categories with minimal parliamentary deliberation. Future-proofing, or democratic deficit?

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

/5 The Amendment Memorandum "clarifies" powers the ISA had long exercised covertly, based on its confidential interpretation of the broad statutory language in the ISA Law: including acquisition of internet history and remote device searches.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

4/The ISA Law has proved remarkably durable for 20+ years: tech-neutral language and broad executive delegation let it absorb smartphones, social media, and online platforms without formal amendment. But the cracks are now showing (hence the 2023 Amendment Memorandum).

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

/3 Future-proof legislation is, at its core, a transfer of rulemaking power from parliament to the executive. In surveillance law, operational secrecy and institutional resistance to scrutiny make this delegation especially consequential and especially difficult to check.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

2/ The paper examines how lawmakers design surveillance legislation to outlast the technologies and threats it governs, with the Israel Security Agency (ISA, AKA Shin Bet, GSS or Shabak) Law as its central case study.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

1/ I am delighted to share that my paper ‘Futureproofing Israeli Surveillance Law – Past, Present and Future’ is now available on the Israel Law Review. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

2/ I also had the opportunity to present findings from my work on the chilling effects of Israeli online state surveillance on Arab-Israeli citizens.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

1/ I immensely enjoyed attending the biannual @survstudiesnet.bsky.social conference this week. With a genuinely rich program, There is plenty to digest. Several ideas and discussions will directly inform my ongoing research, and I look forward to working through them in the weeks ahead.

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The Israeli Forum for Intelligence Studies (IFIS) @ilintelligence.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The next Israeli Forum for Intelligence Studies (IFIS) webinar will host Dr. Thorsten Wetzling, presenting his paper 'Data bought, rights ignored: European intelligence services' use of commercially sourced data'. 🗓️ Tuesday, June 16, at 11 am EST / 17 pm CET Register here: forms.gle/tJL6XaUNCQhi...

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The Israeli Forum for Intelligence Studies (IFIS) @ilintelligence.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

One month remaining to submit your proposal for the Israeli Intelligence Studies Conference 2026. Don't miss the deadline.

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The Israeli Forum for Intelligence Studies (IFIS) @ilintelligence.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

📢 The Israeli Forum for Intelligence Studies (IFIS) is Issuing today the call for papers & award nominations for the Israeli Intelligence Studies Conference 2026! 📅 November 4, 2026 🌍 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 📩 Submission deadline: July 31, 2026

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Submission form for paper proposals: shorturl.at/PiHND For further inquiries, contact @amircahane.bsky.social 📬 amir.cahane@mail.huji.ac.il

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Proposals for the Annual Israeli Conference in Intelligence Studies, Jerusalem, November 4, 2026

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Download while it’s hot! (And don’t forget to cite)

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Presented today, in the 13th privacy conference in Tel Aviv university, my WIP paper on state surveillance chilling effects on the Arab-Israeli minority. Great feedback from our growing privacy community.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Had a great time (albeit disrupted by two missile alarms) talking about the Israeli intelligence oversight ecosystem in the first Latin American Forum (InteLA) for Intelligence Studies. next time, hopefully, in person!

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

רשימה חדשה באייקון על דוח המבקר בנוגע לרוגלות בשירות המשטרה. היא טוענת ששימוש בכלים טכנולוגיים בהסתמך על פרשנות משפטית כשאין חקיקה מפורשת מחייב לפרסמה בפומבי; ושממצאי הדוח הם תוצר של ההעדפה השיטתית של המשטרה להצטייד באמצעים כאלו ללא עבודת מטה סדורה והליכי רכש נאותים.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Join our next Israeli Forum for Intellignce Studies (IFIS) webinar #4.3, 'Algorithms at War: AI and the Digital Transformation of Intelligence' with @clementrenault.bsky.social . 📅 Tuesday, January 20, at 11 am EST / 17 pm CET Contact me for Zoom URL become a friend of IFIS here: www.ifis.co.il

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Interestingly, no mention of the mandated backdoors under IPA2016 (s.253), particularly in light of recent developments regarding the Apple TCN.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

New paper alert! Co-authored with Michael Sierra, "Nascent Regulatory Sandbox Frameworks for AI in Israel," (Cambridge Forum FOR AI: Law & Reg) explores Israel's experimental regulation across autonomous vehicles, fintech, and broader legislative guidelines. #AIRegulation #Israel

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The paper, Surveil and control? Monitoring of web activity in Israel, is accessible here: 🔗https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/29768640251383114 More data and analysis on these chilling effects is in the pipeline!

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The commentary looks at state web monitoring in Israel (both of online activity as well as of passive viewing history). These powers, governed by a lacking legal framework, appear to be mostly aimed at Israel's Arab citizens or alternatively, have intensified chilling effects within that minority.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The editorial for the special issue of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social, by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @kylzjarrett.bsky.social, Jing Hiah and @steelecat717.bsky.social is out. I am happy to have contributed my commentary 'Surveil and control?' Monitoring of web activity in Israel' to this volume.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

4/ As a legal scholar, presenting to non-lawyers, but rather to an audience of intelligence studies researchers, is an opportunity to fine tune your argument and to challenge the commonly held views within your own discipline. The paper already benefited from this experience.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

3/ Then, following pursuant to a theoretical analysis of SOCMINT privacy harms and a comparative review of existing mass surveillance law, the paper offers a generalized legal framework to address the unique challenges SOCMINT presents.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

2/The paper argues that Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT) should be treated and regulated as mass surveillance. It examines how the shift from classic mass media OSINT to social media requires us to reassess the right to privacy.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

This week I presented my paper "Putting OSINT in Context: How to Regulate Privacy in Public" in the Annual Israeli Conference of Intelligence Studies in @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social, organized by the Israeli Forum for Intelligence Studies. (photo:looking at Homeric curated online personae)

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Thrilled to be presenting my paper "Putting OSINT in Context: How to Regulate Privacy in Public" in the Annual Israeli Conference of Intelligence Studies, organized by the Israeli Forum of Intelligence Studies, this Wednesday at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. להרשמה: 🔗https://ifis.co.il

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

New day, new way to underscore FRT privacy harms

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I will also be there to present my paper 'Putting OSINT in Context: Regulating Privacy in Public' which deals with the transformation OSINT underwent with the advent of social media, its effects on the right to privacy, and the question of regulating it.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Coming up on October 29th is the Annual Israeli Conference on Intelligence Studies. Featuring fascinating research panels on Intelligence&AI, Intelligence after OCT7, and other topics, as well as talks by senior figures from academia, government and intelligence. 🔗to register: www.ifis.co.il

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The Annual Israeli Conference for Intelligence Studies - 2025

The Annual Israeli Conference for Intelligence Studies 2025 - Intelligence Transforamtions - October 28-29, 2025

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

לפני כשבוע פורסם תזכיר חוק להארכת האיסור על צריכת פרסומי טרור. 🚨בפוסט חדש בבלוג של איקון אני טוען שלחוק יש אפקט מצנן על צריכת תכנים חוקיים, ושהתיקים הספורים במסגרתם הוא מופעל לא מצדיקים את הפגיעה בחופש המחשבה, הרחבה בהרבה מגדרי האיסור הפלילי המצומצם שבלשונו.https://tinyurl.com/isatrr25

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משטרת מחשבות לשנתיים נוספות? / עמיר כהנא

בשקט בשקט, בחצות שלפני ערב חג, כאילו ביקש שלא למשוך תשומת לב לכך, פרסם משרד המשפטים את תזכיר חוק המאבק בטרור להארכת תוקפה של העבירה האוסרת על צריכת פרסומי טרור.[1] העבירה נוספה לחוק כשבוע לאח…

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

In both cases, the temptation to use LLMs - mostly not domain-specific, mostly, without sufficient resources or abilities to review its outputs - is too strong.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Whenever the occasional item about a case where lawyers were caught with AI hallucinations in their court submission, I return to think about contemporary self-representing plaintiffs, or lawyers who litigate in a language other than their native one.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Both an interesting and frustrating read.

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Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

4/ A follow up project measuring the disproportionate chilling effects of ISA surveillance in Israel is in the works.

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