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The Protection of Personal Data in Law Enforcement and Criminal Proceedings: A Comprehensive and Comparative Analysis of the “Forgotten” Directive
(Kolluk Teşkilatında ve Ceza Yargılamalarında Kişisel Verilerin Korunması: “Unutulan” Direktifin Kapsamlı ve Karşılaştırmalı Analizi)
Abstract
This work was written in Turkish. The summary on this page is a translation; the citation gives the original title in parentheses.
The European Union Data Protection Reform took place through two instruments adopted on 27 April 2016. The first of these had a major impact worldwide; it became the subject of numerous studies, proceedings, opinions and decisions and was met with great interest. The second instrument, by contrast, did not find much room for debate and study; it lost the attention to its “peer” and remained in the shadow of the first.
The first of these instruments comes to mind at once, even before its name is spoken: the European Union General Data Protection Regulation. The second, however, has, so to speak, been forgotten: Directive 2016/680. This “forgotten” instrument, which is the focus of our article, regulates the protection of personal data in the field of law enforcement and criminal proceedings. The aim of this study is to present the reader with a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the Directive and so to clarify the important matters it regulates.
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