Israel: Bosses can only collect biometrics if they heed worker privacy

Israel’s Privacy Protection Authority has published a small set of rules for employers using biometric scans to identify employees.

Unlike similar policies elsewhere in the world that side heavily with employee rights or that sway trying to upset no one, the authority’s states that businesses can have legitimate biometrics programs for identification.

The policy has been summarized by regulatory news and software publisher DataGuidance. The authority posted the policy but only in Hebrew.

The regulator has set out several …

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