In February, the significant developments in the field of
personal data protection are the Personal Data Protection
Authority's ("Authority")
announcements on the technical and organizational measures to be
taken by data controllers and administrative fines to be applicable
in 2022, a decision on publishing the exam results of a data
subject on a news website and the Procedures and Principles
Regarding the Certificate of Participation.
We set out summaries of the developments in February in Turkey
and from the world below.
Decision: Decision on publishing the exam
results of a data subject on a news website
In the complaint submitted to the Authority, the data subject
claimed that their exam results were published on a local news
website without their explicit consent and that the data controller
did not respond to their information request.
