Two-minute Recap Of Recent Developments In Turkish Personal Data Protection Law – July 2021

August 2021 – In July 2021, the Turkish Personal Data Protection Board (the "Board") published nine decisions and announced five data breach notifications. The Board was clearly focused on data breaches in July, as all its decisions last month relate to data breaches. The insurance industry came under particular scrutiny, as four of the nine published decisions relate to insurance companies.

Another important data protection development in July was the publication in the Official Gazette of the Constitutional Court's decision on an individual application regarding the right to request the protection of personal data. In the case in question, the applicant's personal data was shared on the Twitter social media platform by another user. The Constitutional Court concluded that the right to request the protection of personal data had been violated, as the applicant did not provide consent to share her personal information on Twitter.