Newsletter On Turkish Law Developments – Summer 2014

EDITOR'S NOTE

We are pleased to bring you the 2014 Summer Edition of the Hergüner Newsletter which is focused on information technology and data privacy against the backdrop of big data. For some the concept of big data may be new, yet big data transforms every part of our lives. Today when global economies are recovering from the past financial year, businesses are looking for new areas of growth, value and opportunity. More than ever, global economies and businesses are turning to big data for new innovations and new opportunities to turn big data into value, both economically and socially. While data has always had strategic value, the magnitude of big data available today, creates new challenges in how to access and process it to create a valuable and actionable new asset or benefit. In this sense, some refer to big data as being equivalent to oil and gold. Some believe that big data is like the Texas oil boom of the 20th Century, or the California San Francisco