PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING ACTIVITIES OF SOME WEBSITES AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS WERE DECIDED TO BE TERMINATED IMMEDIATELY
Pursuant to the Article 15/6 of the Law on Protection of Personal Data, the Personal Data Protection Board has a right to make principle decisions if it is determined that there is a widespread breach of the Law as a result of reviews conducted upon complaints or ex officio. Within this scope, two principle decisions were published within the Official Gazette on 25.1.2018. With the decision of 2017/61, it was resolved that the data processing activities of websites and mobile applications which are providing communication information of persons without a legal basis shall be terminated immediately. Otherwise it was set out
Draft Regulation on Deleting, Disposal and Anonymization of Personal Data Has Been Published
As per the Law on Protection of Personal Data (“Law”) numbered 6698, data controllers have an obligation to delete, dispose or anonymize personal data if the purposes of processing are no longer existing pursuant to the Article 7 of the Law. The principles and procedures with respect to this will be set out by a regulation as per the Law. Within the scope explained above, a draft Regulation on Deleting, Disposal and Anonymization of Personal Data (“Regulation”) has been published by the Personal Data Protection Agency (“Agency”).[1] The Regulation determines the procedures and principles with regards to deleting, disposal and anonymization of
Memo Regarding Regulation on Data Controller Registry
Preamble The draft Regulation on Data Controller Registry (“Regulation”) was published in the website of the Personal Data Protection Agency (“Agency”) to receive the stakeholders’ opinion. As per the announcement the stakeholders may submit their reviews and comments until 20.05.2017. As per the Law on Protection of Personal Data (“Law”) numbered 6998, the data controllers are required to register to the Data Controller Registry (“Registry”) prior to commencing processing personal data within the period determined and announced by the Board of the Agency (“Agency”). Within this scope, the Regulation which sets out the procedures and principles for registration and the related obligations
Law on Protection of Personal Data Explained in 20 Questions
Personal data which are defined as any type of information that can identify persons, cover information related to them such as identity, communication information including areas such as finance and health. In today’s world, personal data are collected, shared, and stored via IT systems by private sector and public for different purposes. Therefore, the protection of personal data became crucial due to the risk of unauthorised access and sharing of confidential information. Personal data started to be used in international documents in the 1980’s and it was taken under protection by the members of the European Council via the Convention for