; (C) governments— (i) should not place any limits or other restrictions on, or criminalize, the free flow of information; and (ii) should make all efforts to provide and maintain open access to the internet and other communications platforms; (D) emergency measures should not discriminate against any segment of the population, including minorities, vulnerable individuals, and marginalized groups; (E) monitoring systems put in place to track and reduce the impact of the novel coronavirus should, at a minimum— (i) abide by privacy best practices involving data anonymization and aggregation; (ii) be administered in an open and transparent manner; (iii) be scientifically justified and necessary to limit the spread of disease; (iv) be employed for a limited duration of time in correspondence with the system’s public health objective; (v) be subject to independent oversight; (vi) incorporate reasonable data security measures; and (vii) be firewalled from other commercial and governmental uses, such as law enforcement and the enforcement of immigration policies; and (F) governments should take every feasible measure to protect the administration of free and fair elections. 4. Statement of policy It is the policy of the United States— (1) to encourage the protection and promotion of internationally recognized human rights at home and abroad at all times and especially during the novel coronavirus pandemic; (2) to support freedom of expression and freedom of the press in the United States and elsewhere, which freedoms are critical to ensuring public dissemination of, and access to, accurate information about the novel coronavirus pandemic, including information authorities need to enact science-based policies that limit the spread and impact of the virus, while protecting human rights; (3) to support multilateral efforts to address the novel coronavirus pandemic