The Personal Data Protection Board has issued a significant decision addressing a widespread compliance challenge: the practice of combining privacy notices with explicit consent requests in a single document or consent mechanism. This development has important implications for organizations managing data protection obligations.

On 11 January 2022, the Personal Data Protection Authority published the Draft Guideline on Use of Cookies and on 20 June 2022, it published the Guideline on Use of Cookies...

The Turkish Data Protection Authority prepared and published the ‘Common Misconceptions' booklet on 12 May 2020. This booklet was prepared in Q&A format and it includes answers to a...

Article 9 of the Data Protection Law covers how personal data can be transferred outside Turkey however the wording of the Article is difficult and not very clear.

Founded under the leadership of Att. Dr. Cigdem Ayozger Ongun, PhD, LL.M., TUSIAD Data Protection and Technology Law Working Group aims to increase the awareness of TUSIAD members...

As per the Decision of the Personal Data Protection Board ("The Board") dated June 6,2021 and numbered 2021/571, the exemptions for The Registry of the Data Controllers ("VERBIS")...

The administrative fine amounts, which are increased annually pursuant to the provisions of Article 298 of the Tax Procedure Law No. 213...

Administrative fines determined under the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 ("KVKK") are updated annually at the beginning of each calendar year based on the revaluation rate announced pursuant to Article 17 of the Misdemeanors Law No. 5326 and Article 298 of the Tax Procedure Law.

As the importance of data increases day by day, protecting fundamental rights and freedom in this area is becoming much more significant. In this respect, data protection is one of the biggest essentials today.

The Turkish Data Protection Authority in Turkey has recently announced that the deadline for the compulsory registration before the Data Controller Registry has been extended till December 31, 2019.

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The Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 ("PDPL"), Administrative fines, which were prescribed in line with Article 18, are updated through revaluation rates beginning from each calendar year, as per Article 17 of Law on Misdemeanours No. 5326, as well as the repeating Article 298 of Tax Procedure Law.

The VERBIS registry deadlines were first postponed in December 2019 for having many faulty registrations.

The Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency published Guidelines on Protection of Personal Data in Pharmacovigilance Activities (Turkish language) on 1 August 2019.

According to the Article 16 of KVKK, natural and legal persons who process personal data must register with VERBIS (Data Controllers' Registry Information System) before starting data processing.

In this video for our Global Data Protection Review series, Julian Flamant discusses Turkish data protection law with our counsel contact in Turkey, Selin Ozbek Cittone, managing partner of Ozbek Attorney Partnership.

The Turkish Data Protection Authority published on its official website a public announcement concerning the sharing of debt information by creditors' attorneys through accessing...

Upon requests coming from various sector representatives including The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB), the Personal Data Protection Board in Turkey ("Board")

The Regulation on the Procedures and Principles Regarding the Transfer of Personal Data Abroad entered into force after being published in the Official Gazette dated July 10, 2024 and numbered 32598.

On 11 March 2021, the Personal Data Protection Board (the "Board") announced its decision on the postponement of the registration deadline with the Turkish Data Controllers Registry ("VERBIS")...