A Turkish-style Cambridge-Analytica Scandal: Erdogan’s bulk reach into the digital presence of Turkish citizens
June 18, 2022
by Yasir Gökçe, published on 18 June 2022
According to a tweet tread by Onursal Adıgüzel, the vice president of the main opposition party (CHP), the BTK has long been retrieving personal data and communications metadata from internet service providers (ISP), including the big three providers, under the pretext of ‘national security’. A ‘confidential’ communique circulated to 313 ISPs by the BTK orders them to send ‘subscription textures’ once every hour.