An app used by Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope party vacuumed information from the contact lists on party activists’ cell phones (including credit card passwords, telephone numbers and more), thereby violating the privacy of these contacts, who never gave their consent. The result is a database containing personal data on many Israelis being exposed on the internet. This isn’t the first information security failure connected with an election campaign. According to the government’s Privacy Protection Authority, a serious breach of this kind happened prior to the March 2020 election, when the voter roll