The right to personal data protection is considered within the concepts of the “right to be alone” and then “right to privacy” in US law; with a similar progress in continental Europe, it has been considered within the concepts of “right to privacy” or “right to respect for private life”. These days, this right has been shaped as “the right of individuals to control the data about themselves” under the title of protection of personal data. In addition, it has arisen as a result of the fact that information about all sub-classes of private life is processed in the form of personal data, and therefore data privacy has expanded to include areas considered within the scope of private life. In line with this last point mentioned in this study, the crimes on violation of the privacy of private life regulated in the Turkish Penal Code and the crimes related to the protection of personal data are handled primarily reflected case by case in the Court of Appeal decisions, rather than individually crime elements investigation; after the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data, the validity of the approach prevailing in the decisions of the Court of Appeal and the reference provision in Article 17 of the same Law has been evaluated.
Right to privacy ~ personal data protection ~ data privacy ~ Court of Appeal ~ crime
