On April 19, 2020, in an online conference organized by the Selçuk University Law Academy and moderated by Özge Uçak, our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu gave a talk titled “Personal Data Protection Through the Lens of the Corona Pandemic.”
The central thesis of the session was clear: during the pandemic, the processing of health data, employee monitoring, education platforms and government applications rapidly exposed where data-protection law bends, and where its limits hold: under extraordinary conditions.
Balancing health data and public safety
The session addressed the sensitive-data status of health data processed because of the pandemic, the scope of the public-safety justification, and the proportionality of data-processing purposes.
Remote work, education and digital platforms
The position of remote-education platforms with respect to children’s data, the limits of remote employee monitoring, and the legal framework around government applications (such as HES-code style systems) were discussed.
Highlights from this conference
- Health data: Sensitive-data status, proportionality
- Remote work: Limits of employee monitoring
- Education: Children’s data, remote platforms
You can watch the conference on YouTube.
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