Siyaset Ekonomi ve Yönetim Araştırmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Önder KUTLU, Selçuk KAHRAMAN

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DOI:10.25272/j.2147-7035.2017.5.4.03

Anahtar Kelimeler:Personal data protection,Personal Data Protection Board,Privacy,Human rights,Personal data protection in Turkey

Özet: Keeping personal data of individuals by the state is always controversial as the issue tends to involve certain illegal attempts deploying the information for other and unrelated purposes. Turkey has experienced a number of examples in which the individuals responsible for obtaining and classifying personal data conducted some misdoings in keeping privacy of information. In addition, though the agreement protecting personal data kept automatically by the article of the 108 of the European Council was ratified by Turkey in October 1985, it had not been implemented by January 2016. This shows the slow pace of developments in paying attention to the individual rights of citizens in due time. For this purpose, the Board for the Protection of Personal Data was launched in February 2016. Therefore there is a growing need to examine different aspects of the subject matter and evaluate further the establishment of the Board. This study aims to contribute to this delicate and rather questionable issue by reviewing the time period from 1985 to 2016 and therefore elaborating on the organizational and functional discrepancies stemming from the information technologies and individual rights of the persons. The paper intends also to highlight same lessons learnt from the country and elsewhere

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