Two-minute Recap Of Recent Developments In Turkish Personal Data Protection Law – November 2022

December 2022 – In November 2022, the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority ("DPA") announced six data breach notifications but did not publish any decisions.

Constitutional Court: Even if a phone is for business, private conversation is private

The Constitutional Court of Turkey, in its decision published on 15 November, ruled that an examination of an employee's private messages on the employee's allocated business phone by the employer violated the right to respect for private life and the freedom of communication. You can read more about this decision here (in Turkish only).

Background

An employee filed a lawsuit before a local court to demand (i) re-employment after the termination of the employment agreement because the employer read messages on the employee's business phone and (ii) protection of its personal data, since the business phone can contain private messages.