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ARTICLE · 30 JUNE 2020

Cross-Border Data Transfers In Turkey & Effects Of The Data Protection Board's Amazon Turkey Decision

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Data Protection Board recently issued a new decision and fined Amazon Turkey 1.100.000 TRL for violations of data protection and e-commerce legislation...

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Ali Yurtsever
Ali Yurtsever
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Data Protection Board recently issued a new decision and fined Amazon Turkey 1.100.000 TRL for violations of data protection and e-commerce legislation, and for unlawful cross-border data transfers especially for data transfers to its overseas affiliates. Moving forward, the decision will have serious ramifications regarding data transfers in Turkey, and in order to better understand these consequences, we need to first understand the background that lead to such decision.

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Personal Data Protection in Turkey

In a globalized economy where technology companies dominate and control much of the content marketing and where data is seen as the new gold, restricting and monitoring cross-border data transfers is becoming ever-more important, which is also highlighted in the Data Protection Board's (DPB) Amazon Turkey Decision. In this respect, Turkey is taking a similar stance regarding data protection as Europe, by implanting the Law on the Protection of

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