As you might recall, the Regulation on Data Protection Registry was published by the Data Protection Board (“DPA”) literally on the last days of 2017 and entered into force as of 1 January 2018. This was the ma…

The Turkish Data Protection Board (“Board”) has announced on 20 April 2018 the summaries of a total of 8 decisions on its official website. The Board did not disclose its decisions in full but rather shared t…

Finally, the time is up. GDPR becomes the applicable data protection law of the EU as of today. Legislators, regulators and companies had two years to get ready, but apparently it was not enough as not all of…

There is no doubt that 2017 was full of hard work for many of us who have been actively working on data protection compliance projects. Now that the Turkish Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) is fully functiona…

The Turkish Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) has published Guidelines for Data Security (“Guidelines”). These guidelines were long overdue since the Data Protection Law (“Law”) came into force almost two years…