Shin Bet Receives Three Week Extension to Tap Personal Cell Phones

The Subcommittee on Intelligence, Secret Services and Captive and Missing Persons, chaired by Lt.-Gen. (res.) MK Gabi Ashkenazi (Blue and White), has approved a three-week extension of the emergency regulations permitting the Shin Bet (General Security Service) to assist in the national campaign to curb the spread of the coronavirus by tracking the cell phone activity of confirmed coronavirus cases in order to locate anyone who had been in their immediate vicinity and instruct them to go into quarantine.

The extension was granted in order to allow the government to keep the program in place while legislation to enshrine it in law is drafted.

The government had asked the subcommittee for a six-week extension of the measure, but after a detailed discussion on the issue, the subcommittee endorsed Chairman MK Ashkenazi’s proposal to extend it by only three weeks.

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