11 Dec 2020
Information and Communication Technologies Authority’s (“ICTA”) long-awaited Regulation on Process of Personal Data and Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communication Sector (“Regulation”) has been published on the Official Gazette number 31324 dated 4 December 2020. The Regulation will enter […]
19 Nov 2020
On 6 November 2020, Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Authority published a summary of a decision dated 10 September 2020 and numbered 2020/791 on its website regarding the processing of the mobile phone number of a data subject by an […]
23 Oct 2020
The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Turkey (“Court“) rendered its decision (“Decision”) dated 17 September 2020 on surveillance of employee e-mails, which was published in the Official Gazette dated 14 October 2020 and numbered 31274. The issue of […]
22 Oct 2020
What it Brings and How it Resonates from Privacy and Data Protection Perspective Turkish Competition Authority (“TCA”) has published its Guideline on Digital Data Review During On-Site Inspections (“Guideline”) on its website on 11 October 2020 which was approved […]
9 Oct 2020
Turkey’s Data Protection Board (“Board”) decided that biometric signature cannot be processed without explicit consent since it does not fall within the scope of provisions regulating signature under Turkish Code of Obligations number 6098 (“TCO”). The Board, upon an […]
21 Sep 2020
Turkish Data Protection Board (“Board”) decided that a single person may be appointed as the contact person for multiple data controllers abroad at the same time. However, a person can be a contact person for only one data controller […]
21 Sep 2020
Turkey’s Data Protection Board (“Board”) imposed an administrative fine in the amount of TRY 900,000 on a data controller for transferring personal data abroad without having a valid legal basis. The data controller’s claim that Convention 108 is sufficient […]
6 Jul 2020
A number of industry representatives have applied to the Personal Data Protection Authority (“Authority”) for the extension of Data Controllers’ Registry (“VERBIS”) registration obligation on the grounds that due to the COVID-19 pandemic some workplaces are physically closed or […]
1 Jun 2020
Turkey’s Court of Appeal recently rendered an explanatory decision regarding the situations in which online game characters, items, and virtual money are displaced through wrongful acts or become inaccessible to the user. The Court of Appeal has been referred […]
