What Is European Union General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR')?

The concept of personal data protection is based on much older dates in the European Union countries ('Union' / 'EU') compared to other countries. The reason for this is that technological developments and the associated danger of data breach were foreseen early. The underlying reason for this foresight is the legal awareness and sensitivity to the technological developments within the Union. In this context, studies were started in the 1990s with the aim of protecting the fundamental rights and freedoms of real persons, especially the right to personal privacy, regarding the processing of personal data. In line with these studies, on October 24, 1995, ''Directive on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data'' (96/46/EC) was published. Since the European Union directives will not be applied directly to the all countries, it was expected that the rules in the Directive will be transferred to