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Does your country have something similar to the GDPR? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Sucuk@kbin.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Just curious.
Well, of course the EU has the GDPR and California has the CCPA.
My country, Türkiye, has the KVKK. (The Turkish Data Protection Law/Authority)
Does your country have something similar to this?

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[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Don't forget Japan has a very similar thing: https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2018/09/quarterly-insights/data-protection-in-japan-to-align-with-gdpr Actually they casually attended most of the discussion in the EU commission while the GDPR was being drafted.