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Protection of Personal Data with Criminal Norms in the Context of Protection of Personal Data Law and Turkish Criminal Code
(Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Kanunu ve Türk Ceza Kanunu Bağlamında Kişisel Verilerin Ceza Normlarıyla Korunması)
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This work was written in Turkish. The summary on this page is a translation; the citation gives the original title in parentheses.
The article deals with the protection of personal data by criminal provisions. Together with Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (KVKK), it examines the offences in Articles 135 to 138 of the Turkish Criminal Code (TCK) (recording personal data, unlawfully giving or obtaining data, failure to destroy data) and the second paragraph of Article 17 of the KVKK.
Keywords
- personal data
- right to privacy
- data protection
- offence against private life
- processing of data
- data subject
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