With the digital revolution, the continuous updating and development of software on smartphones and computers has led to the need for legal regulation on the processing of information and private data related to individuals. Especially in the banking, insurance and telecommunication sectors, a serious data bank is formed regarding customers. Of course, it is the most natural right of individuals to have legal rights regarding the security and processing of their information and to request that this information is not revealed by spyware.
The purpose of the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data, which entered into force on April 7, 2016, is to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals, especially the privacy of private life, in the processing of personal data and to regulate the obligations of real and legal persons who process personal data and the procedures and principles to be followed. Personal data may only be processed in accordance with the procedures and principles stipulated in this law and other laws.
Processing of personal data: It refers to all kinds of operations performed on personal data such as obtaining, recording, storing, preserving, changing, rearranging, disclosing, transferring, taking over, making available, classifying or preventing the use of personal data by fully or partially automatic means or by non-automatic means provided that it is part of any data recording system.
Data controller: refers to the natural or legal person who determines the purposes and means of processing persoonal data and is responsible for the establishment and management of the data recording system.
First and foremost, it should be noted that personal data can be processed with the explicit consent of individuals, i.e. with the consent that is related to a specific subject, based on information and expressed with free will.