The public prosecutor's office or the court may request user data from social media platforms within the scope of the investigation.
Requested Information
- Account owner identification information
- IP address history
- Message contents
- Login/session records
- Uploaded contents
Process
- Request from the public prosecutor's office or court
- Correspondence to the social media platform
- Turkey's representative (if any) expedites
- Response 3-30 days
- International cooperation (large platforms)
Turkish Citizen Rights
- An investigation has been opened learning
- Right to meet with a lawyer
- Destruction of information if no crime occurs
- Compensation (unfair investigation)
Response of Foreign Company
- Fast if there is a Turkish representative (5651 m.5/A)
- Otherwise MLAT (Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty)
- Some platforms publish transparency reports (Twitter, Google)
Constitutional Court/ECHR
The Constitutional Court and the ECHR accept that the state's social media data requests must be "proportionate and justified" and that the data of innocent users must be protected.
IT and human rights lawyer is recommended.