The judicial reform to align the Turkish Data Protection Law (“KVKK”) with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) was included in the 8th Judicial Package. The incompatibilities between the KVKK and the GDPR will be significantly eliminated in the judicial package submitted to the Justice Commission of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey [...]

At the beginning of this year, the communication application Whatsapp, owned by Facebook Inc., Facebook Ireland Ltd. and Whatsapp LLC (will be referred to as “Facebook”), had announced a new update of its terms of service and privacy policy allowing integrations across Facebook-owned products, meaning a new route for handling how their users’ data [...]