BulletinLEGAL NEWSLETTER 5 – 1

15/05/2024

KEY LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS

Law No. 7511 Law Amending the Turkish Commercial Code and Certain Laws was published in the Official Gazette dated May 29, 2024, and numbered 32560.
The President’s decision on the application of the legal interest rate determined in Article 1 of Law No. 3095 on Statutory Interest and Default Interest as 24% per annum, effective from June 1, 2024, was published in the Official Gazette dated May 21, 2024, and numbered 32552.
The Competition Board decided to impose a daily administrative fine of 0.05 per thousand of Google’s gross revenue for 2023, starting from April 15, 2024, until the obligations are fulfilled, due to Google’s failure to comply with the precautionary measure given for providing an advantage over its competitors in local search and accommodation price comparison services.
The Personal Data Protection Board granted permission for the transfer of personal data abroad, finding no procedural or substantive deficiencies in the commitment application of Huawei Telekomünikasyon Dış Ticaret Limited Şirketi.
The Personal Data Protection Board submitted the draft documents regarding the standard contract and binding company rules, which are envisaged as appropriate assurance methods for cross-border data transfer, for public opinion.

PERSONAL DATA BREACH NOTIFICATIONS

The explanations in the personal data breach notifications made to the Personal Data Protection Board are as follows:

 

⊗In the notification of Lizay Kuyumculuk Ticaret Anonim Şirketi; the start date of thebreach is unknown, the breach started on 20.04. 2024 and was detected on the sameday, the data of the data controller was seized by infiltrating the management panelof the data controller, the breach occurred as a result of obtaining a username andpassword registered in the data controller systems and obtaining the data of other usersregistered in the system, the breach was detected by the e-mail sent by the cyberattacker to the data controller, the relevant groups of people affected by the breach;subscribers / members, customers and potential customers, the number of peopleaffected by the breach is 34,602, and the categories of personal data affected by thebreach are identity, contact and location.

⊗In the notification of Aker Mağazacılık Tekstil Ticaret ve Sanayi Anonim Şirketi; it isexplained that the start date of the breach is unknown, the breach ended on24.04.2024, the breach was detected on 24.04.2024 upon a message from a cyberattacker to the data controller, the relevant groups of people affected by the breach;employees and customers, approximately 25,735 people, including 8 employees, wereaffected by the breach, the personal data categories affected by the breach; identity,contact, for employees, and identity, contact, transaction security and customertransaction information for customers.

⊗In the notification of Asimetrik Ses Işık ve Görüntü Sistemleri Anonim Şirketi; the breachstarted on 23.04.2024 and was detected on the same day, the data in the dataprocessor was compromised and the breach is thought to have occurred as a result of

 

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