Processing of Personal Data
What is Data Processing?
Processing of personal data is the common name given to all operations such as obtaining all or part of a data, manipulating it, transferring it from one medium to another, and preventing its use. Storing data belonging to another person, which is not one's own, on one's own hard disk or CD without any manipulation is also a data processing activity. Storing personal data without the owner's consent constitutes a crime. You can get detailed information from [link] and [link].
The Institution Following the Rules of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data
The processing of personal data is carried out by a data controller within the scope of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data. The data controller is the person responsible for deciding for what purpose personal data will be processed and through which channels this processing activity will be carried out, and managing this data. Since the data is important to the individual, the person who decides how this data will be processed and for what purposes is the person with the highest level of responsibility in this regard. The person who performs data processing activities with the authority given by the data controller is the data processor. The institution established within the scope of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data, the high-level board of the Personal Data Protection Authority, is responsible for making decisions regarding the protection of personal data. This board consists of a total of 9 people. These board members are obliged to listen to the complaints of the individual in their situation if the circumstances specified within the scope of the rules of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data occur. The board of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data imposes financial sanctions if necessary, based on these complaints. In addition, data controllers are obliged to keep the registry secret and confidential. 4 members of the board of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data are directly appointed by the President and the Council of Ministers, and the remaining 5 members are selected from among the candidates nominated by the political parties in the Turkish Grand National Assembly according to the proportion of their member numbers.
