With evolving technology, cookies have become one of the most important methods of personal data gathering. In many countries, institutions and/or legislators have embraced this update in our lives and adopted new rules. One of these countries is Turkey and recently, a guideline about the cookies that are used on websites and various mobile applications has been published by the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (“Authority”). In accordance with this guideline, the Authority has stated that personal data processing can also be carried out through cookies and underlined the necessity of fulfilling the obligations arising from the Personal Data Protection Law (Law) within the framework of these data processing activities.
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