The Shin Bet has been quietly but routinely collecting cellphone metadata since at least 2002, officials confirmed. Two laws and a number of secret regulations and administrative orders govern the data-collection effort and its use by the Shin Bet, officials said. Under that law, it is up to the head of the Shin Bet to determine how cellphone data is used. While the law authorises its use for only six months, the Shin Bet director may reauthorise it. But experts said that was simply unnecessary because the government already receives, as a matter of course, enough data from cellphone carriers to monitor the whereabouts of nearly anyone.

Source: bd News24 March 17, 2020 09:11 UTC