The Personal Data Protection Board (“Board”), upon receipt of an application for complaint by a data subject regarding destruction of his own health report, to the Personal Data Protection Authority (“Authority”), whose father’s former application to the data controller was left unattended...
The first monitoring report (“Monitoring Report”), was prepared as the first publication by the Capital Markets Board (“CMB”) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (“EBRD”) within...
The Draft Communiqué on Remote Identification Methods to be Used by Banks (“Draft Communiqué”) was announced to the public on September 21, 2020 by the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (“BRSA”).
The records obtained by the Office of Chief Public Prosecutor of İstanbul (“Prosecutor”) as a result of the supervision of the communications via telecommunication means, were subject to the investigation in 2011.
In its recent decision numbered 2020/649, dated 27/08/2020, (“Decision”) the Personal Data Protection Board in Turkey (“Board”) rendered upon the evaluations on the inquiry asking whether the biometric signatures could be processed without seeking the explicit consent of the data subject in cases stipulated by the law can be evaluated where the only requirement is...
With The Regulation on the Amendment of the Regulation on Commercial Communication and Commercial Electronic Messages, published in the Official Gazette numbered 31227 on 28.08.2020, the deadlines for real and legal persons who are engaged in electronic trade businesses (“Service Providers”) to upload the approvals they receive from the recipients regarding delivery of commercial electronic...
Subparagraph (ğ) of the second paragraph of Article 3 regulating the Bank Payment Obligation, which is one of the payment methods used in export transactions in accordance with the Communiqué on the Decree No. 32
In order to regulate the procedures and principles regarding the production and use of the Turkish National QR Code in payment services, The Regulation on the Production and Use of Turkish National QR Code in Payment Services prepared by the Central Bank was published in the Official Gazette dated 21.08.2020 and numbered 31220 and entered...
Personal Data Protection Board has amended the following secondary legislation of Turkish Law on Personal Data Protection. These amendments have been published in the Official Gazette dated 28 April 2019 and numbered 30758 and became effective upon publication.
The Personal Data Protection Authority (“Authority”) issued several data breach notifications on its website in March 2019. The notifications of data breaches by small and large scale companies including ING Bank A.Ş. reveal the importance of the issue.
