Amir
Cahane
Amir’s research project, ‘Digital Rights and Surveillance,’ aims to review the evolving sphere of influence and reach of surveillance technology on digital rights,
and to examine whether existing legal frameworks award sufficient protection to individuals, and whether new digital rights require articulation.
The research project will explore these questions through the study of three surveillance measures: Counter-Encryption measures, social scoring systems and Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT).
Amir is a research fellow in the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center – Cyber Law Program the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a researcher in the Israel Democracy Institute. He holds a master’s degree (LLM) from Cambridge University, and bachelor’s degrees from Riechman University (LLB, law and business) and Tel Aviv University (BSc, statistics and management). His research interests are comparative surveillance law, AI regulation and other topics pertaining to law and technology. Amir has published two books on online surveillance laws “Regulation of Online Surveillance in Israeli Law and Comparative Law” (2019) and “Oversight of Online Surveillance in Israel” (2020), both in Hebrew.