15 Apr 2021
The Regulation on Remote Identification Methods to be Used by Banks and Establishment of Contractual Relations in Electronic Environment (“Regulation”) was published in the Official Gazette numbered 31441, on 1 April 2021. With the regulation, it became possible to […]
16 Mar 2021
Turkish Constitutional Court (the “Court”) held that an employer who surveilled employee’s email acted lawfully where surveillance right was recited in the employment contract. In the instant case, employer terminated the employment contract after discovering that employee-petitioner was using […]
16 Mar 2021
The Personal Data Protection Board (“Board”) issued a decision, dated 6 February 2020, and numbered 2020/93, in response to data-subjects (“Petitioners”) seeking modification or deletion of certain non-current health data, the availability of which was negatively impacting their lives. […]
16 Mar 2021
The Personal Data Protection Board (“Board”) issued a decision, dated 30 June 2020, and numbered 2020/508, on requests by certain attorneys for an order of the Board directing removal of their professional profiles – which include personal data – […]
16 Mar 2021
The Personal Data Protection Board (“Board”) issued a decision, dated 17 September 2020, and numbered 2020/710. The decision was in response to a data subject’s (“Petitioner”) complaint alleging that in furtherance of enforcement proceedings pending against Petitioner in bankruptcy […]
16 Mar 2021
The Personal Data Protection Board (“Board”), issued a decision, dated 3 September 2020, and numbered 2020/667, in response to a petition alleging that an insurance company’s explicit consent requirement for policy renewal was unlawful. The Board found the insurance […]
16 Mar 2021
The Personal Data Protection Board (“Board”) issued a decision, dated 8 December 2020, and numbered 2020/927, on a data subject-university lecturer’s (“Petitioner”) request to be excluded from results of search engine queries about certain scandalous but unproven information regarding […]
16 Mar 2021
The Personal Data Protection Board (“Board”) issued a decision, dated 27 January 2020, and numbered 2020/50, regarding a data controller’s processing of personal data from a business email account without express consent. In the instant case, certain personal data […]
10 Feb 2021
The Personal Data Protection Board (“Board”) has issued a principal decision regarding the technical and administrative measures to be taken by data controllers in order to verify the contact addresses provided by data subjects. Within the scope of the […]
10 Feb 2021
The Personal Data Protection Board (“Board”) has published its first decision where it does not impose any sanctions on the data controller who took all necessary technical and administrative measures after the data breach. The data breach subject to […]
