Huawei Telecommunications Foreign Trade Limited Company, Dutch Data Protection Authority (KVKK)has received positive results from the application and can now transfer personal data to servers abroad without asking for users’ consent.

Here is the announcement on the KVKK website:

So what does this statement mean?

One of the expressions in the relevant paragraph is ‘If there is no adequate protection, the data controllers involved in Turkey and the relevant foreign country undertake to provide adequate protection in writing and to obtain permission from the board. without the person’s express consent personal data can be transferred abroadIt appears as ‘. This means that within the scope of the given permission, Huawei can take the data of internet users abroad without permission.

IT specialist speaking on this topic Fusun Sarp NebilHe stated that Turkey is acting according to the 1995 regulations and supports the standards set by the EU in 2016, and that these regulations do not protect our data.

On the other hand Huawei, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir UralogluAccording to the statements of , it owns about half of the internet infrastructure in Turkey. Nebil claims that this percentage is 80%. Nebil also says this situation poses a safety problem.

Huawei was previously banned in many countries Trade war between the US and China It was the center of controversy during that period.