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Assessment of the Personal Data Protection Board's Decision of 16 October 2018, No. 2018/119, “on Messages and Calls”
(Kişisel Verileri Koruma Kurulunun “Mesaj ve Aramalara İlişkin” 16/10/2018 Tarihli ve 2018/119 Sayılı Kararına İlişkin Değerlendirme)
Introduction
This work was written in Turkish. The summary on this page is a translation; the citation gives the original title in parentheses.
The Personal Data Protection Board’s Decision of Principle of 16 October 2018, No. 2018/119, on “preventing data controllers and data processors from directing advertising notifications/calls to data subjects’ e-mail addresses or, by SMS or call, to their mobile phones”, was published in the Official Gazette of 1 November 2018, No. 30582.
The Decision addresses a very wide audience, on the side of data controllers and data processors as well as on the side of data subjects, and the advertising notifications or calls it concerns have today reached an intensity that is almost impossible to avoid. As a result, the Decision has attracted great interest, particularly from those concerned with the subject. In parallel, many points of debate and uncertainty have also arisen with the publication of the Decision. In this article I will discuss the Decision published by the Board, taking into account Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (KVKK) first and foremost, as well as the other legislation related to the subject.
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Dülger, Murat Volkan, “Lawyers' Obligations under the KVKK in the Light of the Board's Decisions” (Kurul Kararları Işığında Avukatların KVKK Yükümlülükleri), conference presentation, 2025.
Dülger, Murat Volkan / Gümüş, Gülçin, “The Right to Be Forgotten”, Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. Yadigar İzmirli (Prof. Dr. Yadigar İzmirli'ye Armağan), 2024.