Knesset approves law allowing Shin Bet virus tracking to resume for 3 weeks
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(Worthy News) – The Knesset on Wednesday passed legislation authorizing the Shin Bet security service to use controversial phone surveillance measures to help track down potential coronavirus carriers for a three-week period.
The measure passed in its second and third readings at the plenum 58-38.
The law stipulates that the Shin Bet can only be deployed if other contact tracing efforts prove fruitless, and that the Health Ministry can only ask for its assistance on days where new infections topped 200. But it also adds that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can ask the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to expand these criteria should he find it necessary. [ Source: Times of Israel (Read More…) ]
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