Şahin | Doğan Law, provides specialized services with its expert team in the field of Personal Data Protection Law, which has become an integral part of our lives, particularly due to technological advancements. The firm assists in the management of compliance processes related to Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (POPD) in all documents prepared within the scope of Corporate Law, client training processes, and dispute resolution matters.
In Turkey, the law on the protection of personal data is regulated by Law No. 6698, which came into effect in 2016. The POPD is a law that regulates all processes involving the processing, storage, erasure, and transfer of personal data. The purpose of the law is to safeguard the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals in relation to the processing of personal data and to ensure the lawful processing of personal data. The POPD establishes numerous principles and rules regarding the processing of personal data and imposes punitive measures for non-compliance.
The law on the protection of personal data determines the rules that must be followed during the collection, processing, storage, erasure, and transfer of personal data, and it defines the penalties to be applied in case of violations of these rules. Additionally, the POPD introduces regulations regarding the obligations of data controllers, the transfer and international transfer of personal data, personal data security, the erasure, destruction, and anonymization of personal data.
The POPD establishes several principles and rules regarding the processing of personal data, such as the requirement to obtain explicit consent for the processing of personal data, the necessity to process personal data in a limited and proportional manner to the intended purpose, and the requirement for personal data to be accurate and up to date. Non-compliance with these principles and rules may result in significant penalties for data controllers according to the POPD.
