In this Privacy Tracker post, Ozan Karaduman, CIPP/E, looks at legitimate interest as a lawful basis for data processing within the Turkish Data Protection Law and compares it to the rules around legitimate interest in the EU General Data Protection Regulation and the EU Data Protection Directive. "As the Turkish Data Protection Law is modeled on Directive 95/46/EC and also includes some concepts from the GDPR, legitimate interest became an important topic also in the Turkish data protection practice. Although the wording of legitimate interest as a lawful basis under the DPL is similar to the directive and the GDPR, there are important differences," Karaduman writes.
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