Amir Cahane is a Ph.D. candidate at the Hebrew University, Faculty of Law, and a research fellow in the ERC project Three Generations of Digital Human Rights.
Prior to his Ph.D. studies, Amir served as researcher in the Israel Democracy Institutes. His research interests are comparative surveillance law, AI regulation and other topics pertaining to law and technology.
Amir published several Hebrew books on surveillance and AI, including Human, Machine, State: Toward the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence (2023, with Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler) a comprehensive primer in Hebrew on AI regulation); Regulation of Online Surveillance in Israeli Law and Comparative Law (2019, with Yuval Shany); and Oversight of online surveillance in Israel (2020, with Yuval Shany). 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).
Amir's Research:
- Regulation of Communication Networks Surveillance and the Principle of Proportionality
- Encryption Rights
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Amir's Blogs:
- Elementary, My Dear Watson: Data Retention in Britain and Israel
- Online Tracking in Israel – Don't Wait for the Local Snowden