Protection of Privacy Law, s. 3: personal data is data about a person who can be identified with reasonable effort (Protection of Privacy Law, 5741-1981 (as amended by Amendment 13), s. 3 (definition of 'personal data'), unofficial translation)
The law covers any data about a person who can be identified with reasonable effort, directly or indirectly, including through an online identifier or location data. Records are outside it only if no person can be identified with reasonable effort, so stripping names alone is not enough when the text still points to a person. The law gives no separate rule for pseudonymised data; it asks the reasonable-effort question.
Dated 18 Oct 2026Source checked 18 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
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“data item relating to an identified or identifiable person; ... one who can be identified with reasonable effort, directly or indirectly, including by an identifier such as name, identification number, biometric identifier, location data, online identifier”
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