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Integrity, or Lack Thereof, of the Electronic Record Systems of the Courts of the State of Israel

Authors:
Joseph Zernik

Keywords: e-courts; e-government; information systems; validation; electronic signatures; certification; authentication, State of Israel.

Abstract:
Abstract— The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission for the Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights in the State of Israel, filed in May 2012, is probably a first – being narrowly focused on analysis of integrity, or lack thereof, of the electronic record systems of the courts of the State of Israel, and being primarily based on data mining of this unique target area. Supreme Court: On or about March 2002, integrity of the electronic records was seriously compromised. Numerous fraudulent decision records were discovered. District Courts: The publicly accessible records were found invalid, primarily for failure to display visible, reliable digital signatures of judges and authentication records by clerks. Detainees Courts: The insecure, unsigned decisions of the detainees courts, often created long time after the dates of the hearings, could not possibly be considered valid legal records. The detainees ID numbers show suspicious discontinuities and failure to correlate with time of issuance, which should raise concerns regarding establishment of ”black hole” prisons and ”field courts”. This study is a call for action by computing experts in general, and data mining experts in particular, in the safeguard of Human Rights and integrity of governments in the Digital Era.

Pages: 31 to 38

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: September 23, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4464

ISBN: 978-1-61208-242-4

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from September 23, 2012 to September 28, 2012