Feburary 2021 – In January, the most remarkable announcement of the Turkish Data Protection Board (the " Board") was in relation to the new privacy policy of the messaging and VoIP platform WhatsApp. Another important development was the Board's principle decision regarding the personal data of third parties illegally provided by data subjects. The Board also celebrated European Data Protection Day on 28 January 2021 with a conference. The Board initiates an investigation against WhatsApp WhatsApp, Inc.—a subsidiary of Facebook—recently announced an update to its privacy policy whereby the use of the WhatsApp application is conditional upon users' explicit consent to their personal data being shared with and transferred to