On March 12, 2024, the Law Amending the Code of Criminal Procedure and Certain Laws ("Law") was published in the Official Gazette Numbered 32487. Significant amendments regarding the processing of sensitive personal data, cross-border transfer of personal data, administrative fines, and the appeal authority have been made to the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 ("KVKK") with this published Law.
With this Law, the following amendments have been made to the KVKK:
- The lawfulness criteria foreseen for the processing of special categories of personal data have been expanded. Processing of sensitive personal data has become possible in the presence of reasons such as the consent of the data subject, explicitly stipulated in the law, actual impossibility, publicization of personal data by the data subject, establishment, use, or protection of a right, persons under the obligation of confidentiality, employment, occupational health and safety, social security, social services, and
