Omer Tene

Omer Tene is Managing Director of Tene & Associates and Vice Dean of the College of Management School of Law, Rishon Le Zion, Israel. He is an Affiliate Scholar at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society; and a Senior Fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum. He serves as rapporteur to the OECD for its review of its 1980 Privacy Guidelines. 

He is an attorney admitted to the Bar in New York and in Israel and consults the Israeli government, data protection authority and private sector businesses on privacy, data protection and law and technology issues.

He was appointed by the Minister of Justice as Member of the National Privacy Protection Council and is a member of the advisory board of the Future of Privacy Forum; European advisory board of IAPP; and Editorial Board of International Data Privacy Law (IDPL). He headed the Steering Committee for the 32nd annual conference of privacy and data protection commissioners. 

He is a graduate of the JSD and LL.M. programs at NYU School of Law and received an MBA degree from INSEAD as well as LL.M. and LL.B. degrees from Tel Aviv University. Omer Tene was an associate at the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton and at the Paris office of Fried Frank and a Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London, where he directed the Data Protection Group. He published articles in English, Hebrew and French on privacy and data protection, corporate bankruptcy and comparative financial regulation.

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Omer Tene & Jules Polonetsky, Big Data for All: Privacy and User Control in the Age of Analytics, 11 Nw J. Tech & IP __ (forthcoming 2012).

Omer Tene, Systematic Government Access to Private-Sector Data in Israel, 2(4) International Data Privacy Law 277 (2012) Download.

Omer Tene & Jules Polonetsky, Privacy in the Age of Big Data: A Time for Big Decisions, 64 Stan. L. Rev. Online 63 (2012). Download

Omer Tene, Me, Myself and I: Aggregated and Disaggregated Identities on Social Networking Services, 8(2) J. Int’l Comm. L. & Tech. __ (forthcoming 2013). Download

Omer Tene & Jules Polonetsky, To Track or ‘Do Not Track’: Advancing Transparency and Individual Control in Online Behavioral Advertising, 13 Minn. J. L. Sci. & Tech. 281 (2012). Download

Omer Tene, Israel's Biometric Database Law: Risks and Opportunities (in Hebrew), Hamishpat (forthcoming 2012). Download

Omer Tene & Yucel Saygin, Privacy and Data Protection in Turkey: (Inching) Towards a European Framework, Privacy & Security Law Report (October 2011). Download

Omer Tene, The Complexities of Defining Personal Data: Anonymization 8(8) Data Protection Law & Policy 6 (2011). Download

Omer Tene, Privacy: The New Generations, 1 International Data Privacy Law 15 (2011). Download

Omer Tene, Reforming the Law from the Ground Up: Recent Developments in Israel’s Privacy Regulation, 9 (38) BNA Privacy & Security Law Report 1341 (2010). Download

Omer Tene, Israel’s Data Protection Reform: Reduce Bureaucracy; Increase Accountability, 10(1) Privacy & Data Protection Law 13 (2009). Download  

Omer Tene, What Google Knows: Privacy and Internet Search Engines, 2008 Utah L. Rev. 1434 (2008). Download

Omer Tene, Israel's New Anti Spam Law: Seller Beware, 96 Privacy Laws & Business 16 (2008). Download

Yoram Hacohen & Omer Tene, Transferral of Pension Fund Databases in Israel, 5(11) Data Protection L. & Pol'y 14 (2008). Download

Omer Tene, Is Israeli Data Protection Law “Adequate” Under Article 25?, 8(5) Privacy and Data Protection 9 (2008). 

Omer Tene, Israeli Data Protection Law: Constitutional, Statutory and Regulatory Reform, 8(1) Privacy and Data Protection 6 (2007). Download

Omer Tene, Israel’s Data Protection Law: Registration, Transfers Abroad, Employment, 89 Privacy Laws & Business 16 (2007). Download
 

Omer Tene, Revisiting the Creditors’ Bargain: The Entitlement to the Going-Concern Surplus in Corporate Bankruptcy Reorganizations, 19 Bankruptcy Developments Journal 287-398 (2003). Download

Omer Tene, Stated Capital Rules in French Security Offerings (2003 Working Paper). Download

Omer Tene, Good Faith in Precontractual Negotiations: A Franco-German-American Perspective (2003 Working Paper). Download 

Eric Cafritz & Omer Tene, Securities Regulation v. Consumer Protection: French Financial Market Legislation, 37 The International Lawyer 173-190 (Spring 2003). 

Eric Cafritz & Omer Tene, Plaidoyer en faveur d'une restriction de la comptence personnelle passive en droit franais, Revue de science criminelle et de droit pnal compar (2003: 4) (in French).

Eric Cafritz & Omer Tene, Article 113-7 of the French Penal Code: The Passive Personality Principle, 41 Columbia J. Transnational L. 585 (2003). Download

Eric Cafritz & Omer Tene, La rglementation des placements privs en France, 2 Bulletin Joly Bourse (May 2003) (in French).

Eric Cafritz & Omer Tene, Conflits de lois dans les contrats de prts internationaux contracts par des entreprises franaises : la question de l'usure, 1 Bulletin Joly Bourse 7 (February 2003) (in French).

Eric Cafritz & Omer Tene, Shop Committee Consultation Rules in French Business Transfers, 36 International Lawyer 1007-1013 (Fall 2002). Download