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The Law requires data controllers to notify the Board and the data subject as soon as possible after becoming aware of the data breach. In its decision dated January 24, 2019 and numbered 2019/19 ("Decision"), the Board clarified the rules and procedures to be followed in data breach cases. The Board adopted the approach of the GDPR in terms of the timing of breach notifications and explained that the phrase "as soon as possible" in the Law must be interpreted as within 72… »
Pursuant to the Law, the Board has the authority to impose administrative sanctions. It has been regulated that the Board may impose administrative fines for non-compliance with the obligation of disclosure, obligations related to data security, failure to comply with the decisions issued by the Board, violations of the obligation to register and notify the Data Controllers’ Registry, or non-compliance with the notification obligation regarding standard contracts. In addition… »
The primary regulation on the protection of personal data in Turkiye is the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“Law”), which came into force in 2016. Based on the European Council Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, the Law has been influenced by the provisions of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and its implementation is shaped by both the GDPR and the decisions of European data protection authorities. The Law adopts similar objectives and… »
AI technologies and their relationship with Intellectual Property (IP) rights have remained a prominent topic on the global agenda this year, as they were last year. With the increasing presence of generative AI models such as ChatGPT, BERT, LaMDA, and DALL-E2, which are capable of creating original content by processing data like text, images and sound, debates continue over whether the outputs generated by these models qualify as copyrighted works, who owns the rights to… »
According to the Competition Authority's (“Authority”) activity report for 2023, it is seen that 68 of the 117 investigation files were concluded with settlements and 28 files were concluded with commitments. Although the activity report for 2024 has not yet been published by the Authority, announcements of final decisions on its website indicate that the majority of investigations in 2024 have also been concluded through settlement. Investigation of competition law… »
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