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 […]
28 Jan 2021
Almost five years passed since the enactment of Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698, whilst much of what were once considered standard business practices in Turkey have become obsolete, if not unlawful. Organizations are now required to implement within […]
7 Jan 2021
INTRODUCTION We are in an era where every sphere of our lives is, willingly or unwillingly, shaped or at least touched by technology. As the new norm, technology sets the boundaries for the concept of “normal.” Unavoidably, every profession […]
5 Jan 2021
On 16 December 2020, Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Authority (the “Authority”) announced (the “Announcement”) on its website regulations applicable to public disclosure of personal data by data processors. The Announcement provides, in relevant part, as follows: Articles 5 and […]
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 […]
