The Recommendations Regarding Data Protection in the Field of Artificial Intelligence

The Recommendations on Data Protection in the Field of Artificial Intelligence (the "Recommendations") was published by the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (the "DPA")1 on its website on 15 September 2021. The scope of the Recommendations address the Developers, Manufacturers, Service Providers and Decision Makers in accordance with the Law on the Protection of Personal Data numbered 6698 and its secondary legislation (the "Law"). This is the first time that DPA has published a document regarding data protection regarding AI-based applications. The Recommendations consist of three parts, namely: (i) general recommendations; (ii) the recommendations for developers; manufacturers and service providers and (iii) recommendations for decision makers. Under the Recommendations the term Artificial Intelligence (the "AI") is defined as the human-specific abilities to be analysed and passed to machines.