Some platforms become systemically relevant in a crisis, so we need regulation that takes this into account before and during the next crisis.
News and Research articles on Covid-19 outbreak
Miglė Petkevičienė -- lawyer turned part-time home-teacher during the Covid-19 -- waives a privacy report card and fills it out for Lithuania. Would your country pass the test?
The COVID-19 pandemic represents the most urgent situation in relation to both disinformation and misinformation since the establishment of European Union’s 2018 codes of practice on disinformation. Pressure to change the regulatory framework is growing.
A proposed amendment to the Lithiuanian Electronic Communications Law aims to grant governmental authorities with access to mobile location data.
Complex and possibly irreversible legal initiatives - that normally take years to be debated and responsively shaped - are being implemented overnight.
The Covid-19 pandemic is challenging public health, economic and social life across Europe. Yet aspiring authoritarians are living a dream. Pandemic is a perfect excuse to interpret basic rights at will.