Israeli Watchdog Consults on Circumstances Justifying Lighter Enforcement
The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority wants feedback on draft regulations intended to establish when it can take a more lenient approach to data protection enforcement, the regulator said Wednesday.
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The authority proposed four situations where it could issue an administrative warning instead of imposing a monetary fine: violation of a new provision of the law for which fines can be imposed; first violation of specific provisions in the Privacy Protection Regulations (Information Security); violation of a provision after its enforcement has been made stricter (during the first three months from publication date of the public notice); and breach of a provision that's ambiguous (during the first three months after public notice).
The authority stressed that "an administrative warning will only be issued in cases where a monetary fine could be imposed."
If the watchdog finds at the end of an enforcement process that there are no violations of law or regulations, it won't issue a warning, it said.
Comments are due Sept. 23.