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Following to the WW II, modern lawmakers acknowledging have enforced the opportunities that are provided by private law, by creating a different legal infrastructure against the dangers presented by technology. This new infrastructure is embodied by the law of data protection, which is positioned on the intersection of private and public laws. The content of the law of data protection is the data, which symbolizes a reflection of personality in its entirety. In this framework we define personal data as all information that identifies a person or renders that person identifiable. As accentuated in our study, personal data shall be defined as information pertinent to the social, physical, psychological and even economic dimension of personality.
As we were analyzing the question of the protection of personal data, we first chose to elaborate upon international documents, pertinent to the protection of personal rights. Later on we chose to focus on directives of the European Union for data protection, with special focus on pre-infraction protection. In this framework we analyzed the "Data Protection Directive" and two other directives in the field of communication. We were also able to concentrate on certain specific aspects of data protection. In the concluding part of our study, we focused on the legal regulation in Turkey and pointed out to the inadequacies in the Turkish legislation in the light of European Union standards. As a result, we have concluded that there is ample need in our country to ensure an effective data protection. Because actual legislation fails to provide such protection. While reaching this conclusion, we have touched upon the newly enacted Code of Employment and the Proposal for a new Data Protection Law, prepared by the Ministry of Justice. We have illustrated certain specific inadequacies in these documents and presented our proposals for amelioration.
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