A SNAPSHOT OF RECENT DECISIONS OF THE DATA PROTECTION BOARD

The Turkish Data Protection Board (the "Board") published certain decisions on its website on 2 March 2021, clarifying implementation of data privacy rules in Turkey to greater extent. In majority of its decisions, the Board once more affirmed previous precedents on unlawful processing and transfer of personal data and highlighted the importance of data minimisation principle where processing of personal data should be adequate and limited to data processing purposes. In addition to those, other decisions of the Board are notable for implementation of data privacy rules.