Current Discussions For Processing Of Personal Data In Insurance Sector

The Law on Protection of Personal Data No. 6698 (the "DPL") has entered into force on April 7, 2016 in Turkiye to (i) protect the fundamental rights and freedoms, particularly the protection of private life, in processing of personal data and (ii) regulate the obligations and principles and procedures to be followed by real and legal persons processing personal data.

The DPL is applicable to all real persons whose personal data are processed as well as real and legal entities processing personal data.

On the other hand, it would be helpful to specifically evaluate data processing activities of insurance companies processing many personal data including sensitive data such as health data due to the nature of their services, which are under the obligation to provide information in scope of the Insurance Law No. 5684 ("Insurance Law") and which often have affiliation with foreign entities with an emphasis on their secrecy and confidentiality obligations . Also,