A Brief Overview of The Recent Developments Regarding Personal
Data Protection in Turkey (May – September 2019)
Introduction
The Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority
("DPA") recently released a number of
decisions that are of significance in various terms such as abuse
of right to process personal data and explicit consent.
Unlike the Turkish Competition Authority, the DPA is not obliged
to publish its decisions, which in fact came under criticism on the
ground that it contradicts with the principle of transparency. In
considering the range of subjects and sectors that the DPA's
have dealt with so far in its published decisions, we understand
that the DPA chooses carefully which of its decision should be
published with a view to address publicly as many sectors as
possible.
