06Practice area
Personal data offences
Unlawfully recording personal data (Article 135) and unlawfully giving, disseminating or obtaining it (Article 136) are separate offences. Unlike the administrative process under the Data Protection Law, criminal proceedings are conducted by the prosecutor.
A. Scope
- Complaints for data leaks and unauthorised sharing
- Defence where employees face allegations
- Coordinating Data Protection Authority complaints with criminal proceedings
- Running content removal requests in parallel
B. General process
- 01
Identifying the data and the disclosure
- 02
Preserving evidence
- 03
Complaint and, if needed, content removal
- 04
Investigation
- 05
Trial
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