Eran published the following message on Twitter:

In the last seven years, I have served as a member of the Privacy Protection Council in the Ministry of Justice, which oversees the Privacy Protection Authority and advises the Minister of Law on privacy issues. I am resigning due to the legislative steps taken by Yariv Levin, the Minister of Law, and his systematic disregard of our warning signals regarding the danger to Israel’s adequacy status granted by the EU.

The decision to resign was made with a very heavy heart. I think it’s very hard to leave a position of a gatekeeper in such difficult times in Israel, even in the field of privacy, which is something that struggles for a place in everyone’s attention. But personally, I felt that the Minister of Justice’s actions turn the Council into a cover-up for the independence of privacy in Israel, an independence that’s fading. I cannot keep this up.

 

The resignation was covered at:

Calcalist: בכיר במועצה להגנת הפרטיות התפטר במחאה על אישור ההצעה לביטול עילת הסבירות