6/30/2023 0 Comments Wiretap podcast endingHaim Wismonsky, director of the state prosecutor office’s cyber unit, said that under the current law, “there is no authority to go into a phone and pull out its data, secretly… Secret search is not covered by the law.” Rather, he said, police need to obtain a search order from a court. ![]() While the law does enable police to obtain a court order to secretly listen to conversations and to observe messages transmitted between devices, search laws prohibit a more thorough investigation of a phone, unless the suspected person was made aware and the suspect’s phone was physically provided to the police. However, several experts invited by the committee claimed that the suite of current applicable laws regarding wiretapping and searches do not permit some of the activities claimed to have been committed by police. ![]() Public Security Committee Chair MK Meirav Ben-Ari leads a session to discuss claims of the police’s use of Pegasus software, January 24, 2022.
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