Locke Lord LLP (JD Supra Turkey)
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Opt-in System Introduced in Turkey for Commercial Electronic Communications in E commerce Law
Turkey’s solid and rapidly expanding e-commerce market volume reached 18.9 billion Turkish Liras as of the end of 2014. The Turkish e-commerce sector accounts for 1.6% of the country’s overall retail sector. Even though this number is well below the 4.5% average of emerging countries, the steady growth percentages over the years have proven the potential in the market.
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Turkey Officially Permits the International Transfer of Personal Data in Telecommunications Sector
In 2012 Turkey’s telecommunications sector regulator, the Information Technologies and Communication Authority (“ICTA”), issued a new regulation on the Processing of Personal Data and Protection of Privacy in the Electronic Communications Sector (“e-Privacy Regulation”) which introduced minimum security requirements and limitations for data retention and — most important of all — prohibited the...